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- Sm. dam. spot at fore-edge of bookblock; wr. trifle foxed; spine splitting at edges.
= Promotional booklet of the Meyerholdt Theatre aimed at informing the provincial soviet audience of the theatre's activities. Very rare.
- Final 4 lvs. w. tiny chipped spot in lower corner. Wr. trifle creased and fingersoiled. Otherwise fine.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 94-110; El Lissitzky Retrospektive 82; Rowell/ Wye 478 and ills. p.194f; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.92ff; Bolliger IV, 679. One of the most striking examples of El Lissitzky's constructivist bookdesign. "The sheer invention of his design of Mayakovsky's For the Voice of 1923 - with its page margins stepped like an address book to form an index to the poems - equals that of Rodchenko's design for About this (Pro eto) of the same year. (...) He built his illustrations from the printers' stock, printing in red as well as black to enliven the pages" (Compton). "Eines des außergewöhnlichsten Bücher, deren typographische Gestaltung Lissitzky übernahm (...)" (El Lissitzky Retrospektive). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Large part of dustwr. renewed (only ±¾ part of orig. frontwr. preserved), w. part of text/ image very carefully reproduced in pen and ink; bookblock and covers sl. wrinkled; some pencil annots.
= Rowell/ Wye 1006 and ill. p.240.
- Creased and sl. frayed.
= Rowell/ Wye 220. Rare periodical with literary contributions by i.a. Osip Mandel'shtam, Aleksandr Blok and Sergei Yesenin. Seven issues were published between 1918 and 1922.
- Wrapper trifle creased.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Sm. stamp and rubbed spot on backwr. Otherwise fine.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Sm. stamp on frontwr.; backwr. vaguely waterst.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Spine splitting; wr. loose(ning) and sl. specked.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Portion of one text leaf cut out. Owner's entry on frontwr. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- A few sm. library stamps. Vague fold in frontwr. Otherwise fine.
- Wrappers partly frayed and split(ting) along spine; year 1925, no.3 lacks half of backwr.
Radio slušatel' (The Radio Listener). Year 1928, no.3, 7, 8 and 15; year 1929, no.7 and 18/19. Ibid., N.K.P.T., 1928-1929, 6 issues, ills., orig. unif. wr., 4to.
= Partly w. interesting typography/ design.
- Sm. owner's entry on first text leaf. Spine sl. waterst. at foot.
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius.
- Wr. creased, sl. stained and fingersoiled; crack in frontwr.; backstrip lacks tiny portion at foot.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 121 and p.93; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 217; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.93; Rowell/ Wye 70 and p.215. For the frontcover Lissitzky used his photographic double-portrait of Hans Arp. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVII.
- Vague stamp on backwr.; some scratches on frontwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius. This issue contians A. Gan's article on Kazimir Malevich, incl. images of his suprematist architectural models. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
- Some underlining in pen and ink. Spine splitting; wr. loose(ning).
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius.
- A few sm. annots. and library stamps on title-p. and frontwr.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
- Vaguely waterst. in upper corner. Frontwr. trifle foxed/ soiled and w. library stamp.
- No.5 frontwr. loose; no.1 some annots. on title-p. and spine splitting.
= With nice wrapper design somewhat reminiscent of 1920s/ 1930s Russian children's books. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVII.
= SIGNED in black ballpoint by the artist on first free endpaper.
Schoemaker-van Weeszenberg, M. a.o. Jan Schoonhoven Delft. Delft, Licht op Schoonhoven, 2015, 160p., richly illustrated, orig. boards, sm. 4to. Hillings, V. a.o. Zero. Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s -60s. New York, Guggenheim, 2014, 242p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to. Deinum, S. Dichter bij Siep. Sijbren Ridsert van den Berg (1913-1998). Leeuw., Wijdemeer, 2014, 384p., num. col. ills., orig. boards, folio. - AND 8 others, i.a. J.-C. MARCADÉ and M. TYL, Serge Charcoune monochromes (Paris, 2018, ills., orig. boards, sm. 4to).