Bursak (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Quarto, hardcover, fine, as new, in near fine brown pictorial dj. Decorated endpapers. Contains bookmark from the Bursaks. 47 pp. Teaches child to believe in himself, keep trying, reach out to people. Here is the story of his career and triumph over dyslexia. Drawing illustrations.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. this book and d.j. are in very good condition like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Squarish quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine brown and grey pictorial dj. 47 pp. illustrated. Two blurbs that came with book included, one a presentation card (with signature of author) and one with Bursak's address and notes why he wrote book. Written to help young peopl e with dyslexia to fulfill their dreams. Book.

First edition, landscape folio (21 x 29.3 cm). 104 pp., with multiple ill; original boards, photomontage illustration after E.A. Mukhina to upper board, covers slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. Rare insight into the early days of Soviet cinema. 'Encyclopaedic work. Most valuable materials' (Savine). The recently proclaimed Soviet state saw the film industry as one of the most important tools for educating the masses in Communist ideology. However, the government had to first deal with challenges posed by an economy ravaged by WWI, revolution and a civil war. The film industry, as many others, needed to be rebuilt from scratch. In 1921 only one feature film, 'Hammer and sickle'. was produced in the country, and there were weeks when not a single cinema was open even in Moscow. Transition to the New Economic Policy in 1921 helped to revive the suffering economy. The film industry received an immediate boost, which to a large extent was due to the Lenin's personal attention to the matter. In 1922 the Soviet Union produced ten feature films; by 1924 the number was already up to forty two. The offered work reviews the progress made by Soviet cinema in the years 1923 â" 1925, giving an overview of the major films produced in these years followed by biographies of film directors and actors. The text is richly illustrated with stills and portraits of protagonists. The book concludes with a brief description of the state of the film industry in other countries. Scarce. WorldCat locates only five copies in public libraries: Stanford, John Hopkins, University of Illinois, Cambridge University and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

BURSAK, Ivan. Kino. 102, [2] pp., illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to, 215 x 295 mm. In original photomontage boards, with a new spine, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Proletkino, 1925. A striking piece of avant-garde book design in this work on Soviet cinema by Ivan Bursak, a revolutionary who was director of Proletkino and executed in 1943. The photomontage cover design was produced by E.A. Mukhina, and the Constructivist title page design was created by the architect Georgy Gol'ts (1893-1946) who designed Metro stations and the Meyerhold Theater, among many other things. Scarce.