• Fine Books and Manuscripts auction at Christies

    Sale 6237

    Fine Books and Manuscripts

    London, South Kensington

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    19 June 2012

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    • MOOR, Dmitrii (1883-1946). Azb
    Lot 419

    MOOR, Dmitrii (1883-1946). Azbuka Krasnoarmeitsa. [Red Army Soldier's Alphabet.] Moscow: State Press, 1921. Small 2° (242 x 176mm). Colour reproductions throughout. (Light browning and faint dampstain in the margins.) Original colour illustrated wrappers (split at spine, some small losses at the extremities, light browning). Provenance: 'Vitia' (neat inscription, in Russian, dated 25 July 1921, to:) -- 'Misha'.

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    GBP 1,875

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    MOOR, Dmitrii (1883-1946). Azbuka Krasnoarmeitsa. [Red Army Soldier's Alphabet.] Moscow: State Press, 1921. Small 2° (242 x 176mm). Colour reproductions throughout. (Light browning and faint dampstain in the margins.) Original colour illustrated wrappers (split at spine, some small losses at the extremities, light browning). Provenance: 'Vitia' (neat inscription, in Russian, dated 25 July 1921, to:) -- 'Misha'.

    FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF MOOR'S MOST FAMOUS PUBLICATIONS. Moor, a renowned poster artist, also collaborated with Mayakovsky on the ROSTA windows. Rare: COPAC locates none in the UK; not in The Russian Avant-Garde Book. Grafica russa 1917-1930, 207.

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