Lev Bruni (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by BRUNI, LEV ALEKSANDROVICH COVER ART (illustrator). VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; BLACK & WHITE TITLES ON WHITE & BLUE PAPER COVERS SHOWING ART DRAWING PORTRAIT OF OSIP. FRONTIS PHOTO OF AUTHOR.plus another photo deeper into text.; 744 pages; Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, was one of the greatest poets of the Soviet period. He was also a brilliant essayist who took the destruction of his culture as one of his main subjects. This comprehensive volume contains most of Mandelstam's essays, reviews, memoirs, reportage, sketches, polemics, forewords, fragments, and notesand the major long prose works of the 1930's, including: "Fourth Prose," "Journey to Armenia," and "Conversations about Dante."essays on FRANCOIS VILLON; JACK LONDON; J.K.HUYSMANS; RUSSIAN POETRY; MENSHEVIKS IN GEORGIA; 1920S 1930S;

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Russian language. Octavo 20 x 14 cm. Wrappers, 65, [2] pp. Print run 7,000 copies. Series: Novaya detskaya biblioteka, srednij i starshij vozrast (the New Children's Library, middle and high school age). Good condition; trace of moisture on the front rapper, back wrapper is stained; internally occasional foxing stains and fingerprints. A collection of four short stories about lions that are perfect for reading to teenagers. The first story Za l vami po Afrike (Chasing Lions Across Africa) is a short piece from Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming's book "Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa" published firstly in 1850. Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1820-1866) was a Scottish traveller known as the "lion hunter . From 1843 to 1848 he had been hunting in Bechuanaland and the valley of the Limpopo River regions. The story of his remarkable exploits is vividly told in his book. The second story "Simba" by Kukert is also told from the perspective of a lion hunter. The third piece Moya l vitsa (My Lioness) is a re-worked extract from the book "Brehms Tierleben" (Brehm's Animal Life) first published in the 1860s by a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829 1884). The last of the stories titled Lʹvyata (Lion Cubs) by Karl Meier tells about two baby lions life and growing up in human family. His srories were published in the Soviet journal Vsemirnyi sledopyt (World Pathfinder; 1925 1931), which featured various adventure fiction and travel literature. Book contains nine full-page illustrations by famous Russian avant-garde artst Lev Bruni (1894 - 1948), who is also known for his constructivist genre counter-reliefs and abstract compositions. Book s photomontage cover design created by Soviet graphic artist Pyotr Suvorov (1901 - 1968). He was engaged in easel graphics, etching and lithography. Taught at the Moscow Surikov Institute, authored many essays and studies on book art.

Sole edition, small 8vo (19 x 14.7 cm); illustrations throughout, small stains to verso of upper wrapper; original printed wrappers, Soviet bookseller's stamps with number inscriptions Soviet children's book celebrating the Soviet 'tropics' i.e. Adjara and Abkhazia. The region was one of Stalin's favourite holiday destinations and there was a concerted effort to cultivate goods traditionally grown elsewhere such as tea, mandarins and bamboo. The book acts as an homage to the warm climate of the Black Sea coast and praises the success of Soviet policy in implementing such rapid change (for example the five year plan being completed in two and a half years). Incredibly vivid illustrations by Lev Bruni (1894-1948), painter, graphic artist and member of the illustrious artistic Bruni family. He studied under Smokish and Roubaud at the Imperial Academy, exhibited with Mir Iskusstva and later became associated with Vladimir Tatlin and Vkhutemas. Bruni was a prominent figure in both pre and post revolutionary Russia and was friends with many famous writers such as Tsvetaeva, Balmont and Ehrenburg.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Moscou, 1924. Izdaniye M. i S. Sabashnikovykh. Un volume au format 187x243mm, 148 pages. Couverture illustrée d une composition de Lev Aleksandrovich BRUNI. Panteleïmon Romanov, l'un des écrivains russes les plus talentueux et les plus connus des années 1920, censuré par le pouvoir stalinien. Ce livre considéré par Gattinger comme son chef d'oeuvre. Dos restauré.

18 x 13.5cm. Two paperbacks, 13[+1]pp & 15[+1]pp. Published 1927 and 1928 respectively. The cover of volume one reproduces a Vladimir Tatlin artwork, and a Lev Aleksandrovich Bruni work appears on volume two. A series of these booklets were planned reviewing the progress of Cubism and Futurism, but only these two volumes were published. Volume one is tanned towards the spine area, but internally very good. Volume two has extensive marginal ink lines, highlighting certain passages, and small strip along the top of the title page has been excised. Punin was an art writer who championed modern Russian movements such as Constructivism and Formalism, and also had interests in the preservation of art collections. In Soviet Russia he attracted criticism for lecturing on Western art. A rare set. [stockref: 089]£500.