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EL LISSITZKY (designer) AND B.M. TAL (editor)
Industriia Sotsializma -- Socialist Industry. Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1935. 7 parts, quarto (355 x 260mm). Numerous black and white photographs, colour illustrations, maps and diagrams, many of these folding, cut-outs and overlays, folder with one large folding map and one folding view. (Some repaired tears, occasional marginal dampstain, folding map strengthened with tape on verso, folding view backed with tape.) Original printed covers, original maps folder, original inner portfolio (covers and folder repaired, one back cover with a large blank section supplied, outer portfolio supplied in facsimile but preserving some of the spine, and the inner panel with printed contents list).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE HIGH POINT BOTH OF LISSITZKY'S BOOK-DESIGNING CAREER AND OF THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK'; 'in no other book is the imagery quite so brilliantly piled up, one picture upon the other, the ideas constantly inventive and dazzling' (The Photobook). The Book of 101 Books, pp.82-85 ('a feast for the eyes' and a 'magnificent paean'); The Open Book, pp.116-7; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.160-3. Sold not subject to return.
Industriia Sotsializma -- Socialist Industry. Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1935. 7 parts, quarto (355 x 260mm). Numerous black and white photographs, colour illustrations, maps and diagrams, many of these folding, cut-outs and overlays, folder with one large folding map and one folding view. (Some repaired tears, occasional marginal dampstain, folding map strengthened with tape on verso, folding view backed with tape.) Original printed covers, original maps folder, original inner portfolio (covers and folder repaired, one back cover with a large blank section supplied, outer portfolio supplied in facsimile but preserving some of the spine, and the inner panel with printed contents list).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE HIGH POINT BOTH OF LISSITZKY'S BOOK-DESIGNING CAREER AND OF THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK'; 'in no other book is the imagery quite so brilliantly piled up, one picture upon the other, the ideas constantly inventive and dazzling' (The Photobook). The Book of 101 Books, pp.82-85 ('a feast for the eyes' and a 'magnificent paean'); The Open Book, pp.116-7; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.160-3. Sold not subject to return.
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