V Stepanova a Rodchenko (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A very good clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. One of 4000 copies. Mild stress crease in top left corner of front cover, otherwise fine. 86 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

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. No jacket. Decorative boards with imitation leather spine, 26cm, 326 pages, black & white photo illustrations. Text material is in English. Stalin portrait is slightly torn but still attached to binding. Not ex-library. A good copy: Actually an attractive copy of a poorly manufactured book.

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: Very Good. 1st. In English. Bound in quarter red leather with paper illustration over boards. Glossy photo-printed endpapers. Remarkably illustrated throughout with photographs, film stills, fold-out "movie theater," and transparent celluloid sheet printed with Stalin's silhouette and speech. Minor wear to extremities. A unique and striking book. 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches. 312 pages plus advertisements.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (Moscow Under Reconstruction, an Album of Diagrams, Topograms, and Photography of the Reconstruction of the City of Moscow).Quarto 33.4x34 cm., embossed cloth, 256pp., profusely illustrated with maps, foldouts, and visual schematics. Text by Viktor Shklovskii, art and book design by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Photography by Georgii Zelma, Georgii Pretrusov, E. Langman, Ia.Khalip, E. Baldyrev. Includes plans and graphs as color lithographs, photogravures in sepia, blue or green, overlays of maps, foldouts, layered pages. This work by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova is one of the most wonderful collaborations in the history of Russian photobooks. It was executed by them concurrently with The Red Army, but is much more complex, dynamic, and elaborate than the latter. It was the most ambitious of any of the Soviet photography books that were produced in the 1930s. Every one of the contributors --- verbal, photographic, in design and execution --- are significant in their own right. Simply put, the most breathtaking, brilliant of photobooks in the era of great Soviet photobooks, a masterpiece of book production. Karasik 252-257, The Photobook I, pp. 168-169, This copy near fine. Please contact us for further information, photos.

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.