Descrizione

This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on June 2, 2006. Sale # L06412 "ZAUM". The sale consisted of important Russian books across many fields. Russian Avant garde materials by El Lissitsky, Olga Rozanova, Natalia Goncharova, Kruchenykh, Larionov, Mayakovsky, Burliuk, Iliazd, among many others. Children's books by Alexander Benois, Bilibin, Lebedev, among them a group that formed the core of the great exhibition at MAK in Vienna in 2004, 'Shili-Byli Russian Children's Books 1920-1940'. Also important political works by Marx and Lenin. Also Russian literature, travel books, and maps and a short section of 19th & 20th century Russian photographs. Romanov family photos, letters, telegrams, etc. 219 lots in the sale. All illustrated, many in color. 11" high X 8" wide, 186 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.