Published by Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1935
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Very Good. 52pp. - Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, . 1935. Hardback. . . . .
Published by Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 52pp. - Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, . 1935. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Éditions D'État Des Beaux-Arts, Moscow, 1938
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [36pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, with a few short tears, light dustiness and faint stains to wrappers; tiny price rubber stamped to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+. French-language issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and (through various foreign-language editions) to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitsky, Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" (Parr-Badger, The Photobook, I:148). The present issue is entirely devoted to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kyrgyzstan. With text by El-Reghistan, photos by M. Alpert and layout designed by S. Telingater.
Moscou, Isoghis , 1937, 416x300mm, 32p., broché sous couverture imprimée. (104723) Rédaction A.V. Kossarev, photographies de J. Khalip, conception graphique de N. Trochine.Numéro consacré aux Usines de tracteurs de Kharkov. A parti de 1921 Kharkov, capitale de l'Ukraine, connaît un développement industriel et architectural exceptionnel; le complexe Gosprom (place de la Liberté) construit entre 1926 et 1929 par Serafimov, Kravets et Fleger est entré dans l'architecture du 20ème siècle comme une des plus belles réussites de l'architecture constructiviste, préfigurant les mégastructures des années 50-60. L'usine modèle, terminée en 1930, produisait le fameux tracteur à chenilles, aisément transformable en char d'assaut.Exemplaire en langue française.(104723).