Proletarian, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good or better in good dustwrapper. Book has very slight browning all the way around on top edges. Dustwrapper has pieces missing at top and bottom of spine as well as along the top and bottom borders. Also the jacket has been price clipped and has browning throughout. Signed by the Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A clean tightly bound copy in red paper wrappers, inscribed and dated by the Author on teh title page, and the whole shoing light shelf and edge wear only.; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. No jacket. Some wear and marking to the boards, spine, and edges. Binding is sound. Heavy creasing to some pages. Writing, underlining, and annotation to a limited number of pages. The majority of the text is clean and unmarked. ---. Appears to be signed and inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Straight, sharp boards. Edge-wear and small stains to DJ. Signed by author to ffep. Occasional spotting to edge of text-block. Internally clean, crisp, yellowing pages. Sound binding. Rare book. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Author's first book. Edition limited to 1000 copies. This copy inscribed by the book's publisher, Oscar Baradinsky. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Poems by Charles Willeford inspired by his World War II experiences. Number 12 in the Alicat Outcast Poets Series of Chapbooks. Contains a preface by the author and seven prose "Schematics" interlaced with the poetry. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 38 pages. First edition, first priting. Alicat Chapbooks No. XII. One of 1000 copies. Willeford's first book of prose and poetry describing his World War II experiences as a tank commander. Signed by Willeford on the first sheet. Fine book in wrappers with only very slight acidic paper browning. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Saratov: Saratovskii Proletkul't (Saratov. Profes.-Tekhnich. Shkola Gubpoligrafotdela), 1920. Octavo (26 × 17.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 96 pp. Frontis portrait of F. I. Kalinin on better stock and seven leaves of plates. Good or better; wear to wrappers and spine; with soil to edges and restoration to upper and lower corners; some chipping to spine. Very rare anthology, one of only two published, by the Proletkult (Proletarian Culture) movement in Saratov, near the Volga River. It was intended to give a representative overview of the literary and visual works of local proletarian writers and artists, who were inspired by the larger movement in the Soviet Union and even abroad, and were active in various local workshops and studios. Founded in 1917 at a congress of worker creative workshops, Proletkult "began as a loose coalition of clubs, factory committees, worker's theaters, and educational societies devoted to the cultural needs of the working class." With support from the minister of education Anatoly Lunacharsky and theoretical guidance by Aleksandr Bogdanov, who believed that only art made by the proletariat can reflect most accurately the reality of the proletariat, "by 1918 it had expanded into a national movement with a much more ambitious purpose: to define a unique proletarian culture that would inform and inspire the new society" (Lynn Mally. Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia, 1990; pp. xviii). This volume opens with a tribute to F. I. Kalinin (1882-1920), a Russian revolutionary and literary critic who had served as chairman of Proletkult prior to his untimely death. It contains poetry and prose by young proletarian writers, some of which signed, other texts under pseudonyms. While many of them praise the virtues of hard work, industrialization, and the revolutionary struggle, others are more lyrical in tone. Among the authors are K. Prokof'ev, Aleksandr Zirikh, Nina Smirnova, D. Maslennikov, I. Toom, A. Belov, Ivan Kuznetsov, P. Teplova, A. Vinokurov, S. Zas'ko, A. Strokova, A. Miadzelets, and A. Masterkov. With seven leaves of plates featuring reproductions of works signed Balakirev, Rall', Brusnikin (three works), Leimik, and Pimenov. The wrapper design is credited to one M. Vasil'ev, a student of the "IZO" art workshop in Saratov. A section of "Proletsmekh" includes satirical texts. A final section on the chronology of the Proletkult movement contains historical notes as well as proceedings from the second Saratov Gubernia conference of Proletkult groups, with detailed reports on arts and literary activities in the region, as well as the preparations for the present publication (noted to have been printed in only 700 copies). Not in Getty. As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show a single holding of the first volume at Stanford.