Arossev Stepanova Rodchenko (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated with photographs, design and photo montage by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Illustrated red paper over boards; 1/4 leatherette and glossy paper. An impressive feat of Soviet propaganda, The book featured history and biographies, with portraits, of key Russian filmmakers, actors, famous movies, critics' statements and more. In true Soviet fashion, it also included the celebrated fold-out, die-cut, image of a cinema's audience in front of a big screen with a "hole," through which Lenin's head peeked, as well as the tipped-in, celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette. As good a copy as one hopes to find. No DJ as issued. See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original red cloth with pictorial onlays to both boards, pictorial eps. The bound-in celluloid leaf with silhouette of Stalin has a tear and small loss. Text in English, pages lightly toned, prelims creased to corner, boards rubbed, points lightly bumped. ; quarto; 306 pages.

Hardcover. 306p. [xvi], a now-handleable copy following much restoration commissioned by ourselves: original illustrated boards are a bit worn, expect minor internal dampstaining and a small envelope irritatingly affixed to the illustrated pastedown; a bound-in cell [celluloid leaf] with profile of Stalin now mended with reversable filmoplast; head and tail of spine professionally restored, outer joints repaired. A reading copy for English-speakers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Voks. 1935. 312 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White plates. First Edition/First Printing. Text in English. Bound in decorative illustrated boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present present to the extremities. Celluloid of Stalin's head has seen better days (see photo; it is present but in fragments). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An impressive feat of Soviet propaganda, the book featured history and biographies, with portraits, of key Russian filmmakers, actors, famous movies, critics' statements and more. In true Soviet fashion, it also included the celebrated fold-out, die-cut, image of a cinema's audience in front of a big screen with a "hole," through which Lenin's head peeked (see photo) , as well as the tipped-in, celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette (rarely found intact, see photo). The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite films in the Russian language being predominant in the body of work so described, includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. Most prolific in their republican films, after the Russian SFSR, were the Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and, to a lesser degree, Lithuanian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Moldavian SSR. At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union. E-048; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Quarto. 312, [12]pp. Text in English. Quarter red leather and cloth with paper illustration over boards. Endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper. Extensively illustrated, with innovatively illustrated half-title and title page with film illustrations in color, tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette, a folding plate of a theatre and audience, etc. Publication celebrating an overview of the Soviet cinema with contributions by many, profiles of filmmakers, mention of the industry in Soviet Union vassal states, etc. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small 4to, decorated boards, a very good copy with minor rubbing , the Celloid Stalin has a clean horizontal tear 2/3 away across the middle but holds together well & is repairable by an expert.(VV3/1.