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Lot 124. SALMON, André (1881-1969) and Iurii Pavlovich ANNENKOV [Georges Annenkoff] (1889-1974) (illustrator).
Art Russe Moderne. Paris: Éditions Laville, 1928. 4to (313 x 236 mm). Numerous illustrations. Contemporary roan-backed patterned papercovered
boards, titled in black on upper cover, spine gilt, original pictorial wrappers after I.P. Annenkov bound-in. Condition: binding rubbed,
scuffed and chipped, wrappers somewhat soiled.
[With:] Alexandre BENOIS, P. P. WEINER, E. de LIPHART, James SCHMIDT, Baron N. WRAMGELL, A.A. TROUBNIKOFF, and
Serge MAKOWSKY, Serge WIENER. Les Anciennes Écoles de Peinture Dans les palais et collections privées Russes représentée a l’exposition organisée
a St-Pétersbourg en 1909 par la revue d’art ancien “Staryé Gody.” Brussels: G. van Oest & Cie., 1910. 4to (280 x 220 mm). Half-title. Plates,
some half-tone, some photogravure. Near-contemporary green cloth, titled in gilt on spine label, original grey paper wrappers bound in.
Condition: six plates and four text leaves detached and loosely inserted; spine and upper cover lightly soiled, some discoloration to original
wrappers.(2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 125. SAUTIN, Ivan and Ivan IVANITSKY (editors) and El LISSITZKY [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illustrator).
An Album Depicting the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics,
1938. 148 pp. Oblong folio (240 x 348 mm). Color and black and white illustrations, designs and charts by Lissitzky, Grigorovich and
Nikolaev. Red cloth wraps stamped in gilt. Condition: backstrip partially split at head and tail, wrapper edges lightly thumbsoiled, occasional
light spotting to endpapers.
extensively illustrated including many full-page color charts and graphs depicting aspects of Russian “State Organization,”
“Economic Construction,” “Welfare and Culture” and “Position of Women” in the USSR. Also with an insert at the back of estimates to the
third five-year plan (1938-1942). The present work is typical of the typographical work Lissitzky did for the Soviet government after his
return to Russia from Germany in 1928 where he had been highly influential in the Bauhaus movement.
$1500 – $2000
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Lot 126. SHKLOVSKII, Viktor Borisovich (1893-1984), Osip Maksimovich BRIK (1888-1945) and others.
Sborniki po teorii poeticheskago yazyka [Debates on Theories of Poetic Language]. Petrograd: Z. Sokolinskii, 1916-1917. 2 volumes. 8vo (240 x 165
mm each). Original lettered tan wrappers. Condition: some light chipping to backstrip extemities.
important theoretical studies of modern Russian poetry by opoyaz. With contributions by O. M. Brik, B. A. Kushner, E. D.
Polivanov, V. Shklovskii and L. Yakubinskii. Shklovskii was one of the most important Russian literary critics of the early twentieth century.
He founded OPOYAZ (Obschestvo izucheniya Poeticheskogo Yazyka), the Society for the Study of Poetic Language. They along with the
Moscow Linguistic Circle developed the critical theories and techniques of Russian Formalism (a term originally used pejoritively by their
opponents). One of his essays deals with the Russian Futurist nonsense language zaum. Brik was an influential Russian avant-garde writer and
literary critic, who like Shklovskii belonged to the Russian Formalist school. He cofounded with Vladimir Mayakovsky the magazine LEF
(later Novyi LEF [New LEF]). His wife Lili was one of Mayakovsky’s mistresses and the subject of many of his most ardent love lyrics.(2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 127. SOLOGUB, Fedor [Fedor Kuzmich Teternikov] (1863-1927).
Stykhi. Tom pyatyi [Verse.Fifth Book]. St. Petersburg: “Shipovnik,” [1910]. 232 pp. 8vo (210 x 155 mm). Rebound in contemporary clothbacked
marbled boards with cloth tips and the original wrappers mounted on the upper and lower covers. Condition: some light soiling and
discoloration to the wrappers. Provenance: Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi.
rare presentation copy to fellow writer aleksei tolstoi given in fond memory. Sologub was an important Russian Symbolist
poet, novelist, playwright and essayist best known for his novel Melkii bes [The Petty Demon] (1907). Tolstoi (1883-1945) was an important
Russian writer of science fiction, historical novels and children’s books. Although he dropped the title “Graf ” or “Count” after the Revolution,
he was often referred to as “Comrade Count.” His most famous science fiction novel was Aelita (1923), made into an early silent Soviet
movie; and he also retold Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as Zolotoi kliuchik [The Golden Key] (1936).
$3000 – $5000
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