Avant-garde Covers from Biblionne

Tokyo, ナウカ, 昭和11 [1936]. Cover design for this Turgenev's novel was created by the Russian-born painter and graphic artist Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983). Her mother distantly related to the prominent poet Alexander Pushkin. Varvara studied in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under Nikolay Dubovskoy. In the early 1910s she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions… Read more about this item

[Moskva], Tea-kino-pechatʹ, 1928. Limited to 2 000 copies. The collection of scores was prepared by the Soviet composer and conductor of silent movies David Blok (1888-1948).

Avant-garde covers by unknown artist. Author Nikolai Evreinov (1892-1939) was an official in Soviet Trade Unions. He was sentenced to be shot in 1938 during the Great Purge. We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.

One of 6 000 copies published. Covers by Nikolai Akimov (1901-1968) - theater artist and producer. The novel by Leonid Borisov (1897-1972) about two circus performers. A Year before Borisov published his best novel Khod konem [Knight's move]. Russian Modernism: The Collections of the Getty Research Institute... #98. OCLC traces several copies in USA, in Columbia University, in University of California,… Read more about this item

Stenbergs brothers – colour lithographed covers. One of 5 000 copies printed. Wrappers are in constructivism style by famous graphic and film poster artists Vladimir and Georgii Stenbergs. They were members of Institute of artistic culture in Moscow together with Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova. Since 1922 the Stenbergs designed sets and costumes for Alexander Tairov's Moscow Kamernyi (Chamber)… Read more about this item

One of 1.500 copies published. Covers by Mikhail Sokolov (1885-1947) - member of World of Arts movement. He lived in Tver' in the beginning of 20s. In 1923 he destroyed almost all of his works fearing of arrest. He was arrested in 1938. Among the contributors are composer and critic Leonid Sabaneev (1881-1968) who left Russia in 1926, futurist poet Ivan… Read more about this item

Pinchevski Mar - translation. Kukhalashvili Volodimir - afterword. Chekan'uk Iu.A. - book design The first edition of The Great Gatsby in Ukrainian language. Tender is the Night was published in Ukrainian in 1975 for the first time. Translated by Mar Pinchevskii (1925-1983) - journalist and writer. He was a son of Jewish poet Moishe Pinchevskii. Mar Pinchevskii translated into Ukrainian novels… Read more about this item

R.I. Kalmens - translation from German. B.A. Kal'pus - foreword. N. Borov – covers with photomontage One of 20.000 copies printed. A series of books about a healthy lifestyle of the Danish gymnast Joergen Peter Mueller (1866-1938) was very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. In 1911 Müller came to Russia and acted in Moscow and St. Petersburg where showed as it is necessary… Read more about this item