RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING

Auction 83, 24-28 November 2025

50 lots

Lots

Lot 327

Brigada Khudozhnikov (Artists' Brigade).

No.5/6. Moscow, Izogiz, 1931, 46,(2)p., col. plates (1x fold.), ills., layout by M. ILYIN and G. ROGINSKY, orig. (photomontage) wr. by M. DOBROKOVSKY, 4to.

Estimate €100 – €150Result €700

Lot 328

Brigada Khudozhnikov (Artists' Brigade).

No.7. Moscow, Izogiz, 1931, 26,(6)p., ills., layout by G. GERONSKY and G. ROGINSKY, orig. (photomontage) wr. by V. STENBERG, 4to.

Estimate €80 – €100Result €220

Lot 331

[Cinema]. (Tea-)Kinopechat'.

(Moscow/ Leningrad), (Tea-)Kinopechat', n.d. (±1925), lot of 4 vols., ills., orig. (photomontage) wr., 12mo. ADDED: a Russian translation of H.G. WELLS, In the Abyss (Moscow, 1926, orig. wr., 12mo).

Estimate €40 – €60Result €40

Lot 335

LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.

Year 1, no.2; year 2, no.1. Ed. V. Mayakovsky. Moscow/ Leningrad, Gos. Izd., 1923-1924, 2 vols., 177,(3); 159,(1)p., ills., orig. wr. by A. RODCHENKO.

Estimate €400 – €600Result €475

Lot 339

[Lissitzky, El]. Industrija Socializma. Tyazholaya promyshlennost' k VII Vsesoyuznomy S'yezdu Sovetov (Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry towards the VIIth Congress of the Soviets).

Moscow, Stroim/ Izogiz, 1935, 7 vols. (incl. map vol. w. 2 fold. col. maps), num. (tinted) (photogr./ photomontage) fold. plates, ills., orig. unif. embossed wr. printed in gold, silver and red, together in orig. blindst. dec. cl. portfolio, all des. by EL LISSITZKY, folio.

Estimate €3,000 – €5,000Result €3,750

Lot 343

[Militaria]. Kozlyaninov, V.F. a.o. (ed.). Istoria Leib Gvardii Konnago Polka (History of the Horse Guards Regiment).

Paris, various publ., 1938-1966, 3 text vols.: XVII,(1),250,(1); 216,(2); 337,(1)p., (tipped-in) (chromolithogr.) plates/ portraits, ills., printed in 165/ 125/ 200 numb. copies (vol. 1 unnumb.), contemp. unif. giltlettered hleather, folio; plate vol.: text booklet (39,(1)p., orig. wr., folio) and num. (tipped-on) (col.) plates/ portraits, loose as issued in 12 paper portfolios, together in orig. drop back box w. mounted pochoir col. plate on upper lid.

Estimate €2,000 – €3,000

Lot 357

Proizvodstvennyj zhurnal (Production journal).

Year 2, no.6, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23 and 24; year 3, no.24. Ed. O. Goltzman. Moscow, Gos. Izd., 1928-1929, 9 vols., ills., orig. unif. (photomontage) wr., 4to.

Estimate €200 – €300Result €230

Lot 362

[Rodchenko, A.]. Novyj LEF.

Year 1927, no.1. Ed. V. Mayakovski. Moscow, Gosizdat, 1927, 47,(1)p., double-p. photogr. plate (printed on recto and verso), orig. wr. by A. RODCHENKO. AND 1 other issue of NOVYJ LEF (year 1927, no.10. Cut short w. loss of most of the word "Novyj" on frontwr.).

Estimate €120 – €150Result €375

Lot 364

Shtorm, G. Khod Slona (The Bishop's Move).

Moscow/ Leningrad, Gos. Izd., 1930, 78,(12)p., woodcut ills. and orig. wr. by A. KRAVCHENKO. Nold, R. Pod razvesistoi klyukvoi. Ibid., Tea-Kino-Pechat', 1929, 27,(5)p., ills., orig. wr. by A. USHIN.

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 366

Spolokhi (Flashes).

Year 1, no.1 and 2. Ed. A. Drozdov. Berlin, E.A. Gutnov, 1921, 2 vols., 56; 52p., plates/ ills. after M. LAGORIO (no.1) and M. CHAGALL (no.2), orig. unif. wr. w. mounted plate, 4to.

Estimate €200 – €300Result €200

Lot 369

Za proletarskoe iskusstvo (For a proletarian art).

Year 1, no.1 and year 2, no.4. Moscow/ Leningrad, Ogiz-Izogoz, 1931-1932, 2 vols., 32; 15,(1)p., ills., (col.) plates, ills. by/ after i.a. TH. STEINLEN, BÉLA UITZ and KUKRYNIKSY (incl. frontwr. no.4), 4to.

Estimate €100 – €150Result €100

Lot 372

Zhar-Ptitza (The Fire Bird).

No.1-14. Berlin, Russische Kunst, 1921-1926, 13 issues in 2 vols. and 1 loose issue (no.14), (tipped-in col.) plates, (col.) ills., later unif. rexine, orig. wr. (except no. 3 and 6) by i.a. S. CHEKHONIN and I. BILIBIN pres./ orig. wr. by I. BILIBIN (no.14), 4to.

Estimate €300 – €500Result €600