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Item #55464 [ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM IN YUGOSLAVIA] Collection of fifty-five Yugoslav...

[ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM IN YUGOSLAVIA] Collection of fifty-five Yugoslav publications on architecture and urban development, 1940s–1980s.

A complete list is available on request. Spanning half a century of modernist architecture, this collection captures the architectural and urban development of Yugoslavia from the period of immediate post-WWII rebuilding, to the rapid construction in the 1960s, and the peak of modular construction and prefabricated housing in the 1970s..... More

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Item #54828 [MAIN ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL OF LENINGRAD] Arkhitektura Leningrada: organ...

[MAIN ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL OF LENINGRAD] Arkhitektura Leningrada: organ leningradskogo soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov [Architecture of Leningrad. Publication of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Architects], nos. 1, 2 (1936); 1–3 (1937); 1–6 (1938); 2–6 (1939); 1–3, 5–6 (1940); 1, 3 (1941).

Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1936–1941. Quartos (29 × 22.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; ca. 80 pp per issue. Illustrations, including photographs, plans, elevations. Two issues missing front wrappers (no.1, 1936 and no. 6, 1938), one issue missing front wrapper fragments (6, 1936). Overall light soil to wrappers; about very good or better..... More

Price: €2,500.00

[EL LISSITZKY – MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitektura sovremennogo zapada [The architecture of the contemporary West].

Arkin, D[avid], editor and El Lissitzky, design.

Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (27 × 19 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 185, [2] pp. Lacking the pictorial dust jacket. Boards and corners lightly rubbed and scuffed; crease to front board; front hinge shaken; owner signature to title; occasional underlining in the text; else good. A celebratory overview of..... More

Price: €400.00

[EL LISSITZKY – MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitektura sovremennogo zapada [The architecture of the contemporary West].

Arkin, D[avid], editor and El Lissitzky, design.

Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (27 × 19 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 185, [2] pp. The original pictorial dust jacket rather worn and chipped; title toned and with pencil owner note; else very good. A celebratory overview of Western modernist architecture, with detailed analysis of the works of architects..... More

Price: €500.00

[BULGARIAN MODERNISM] Bentuit treshti: provintsialna khronika [The dike thunders: a provincial chronicle].

Bielev, G'oncho and Veselin Staikov, designer.

Sofia: Narodna kniga, 1936. Octavo (18 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Veselin Staikov; 105, [3] pp. Light wear to spine and fraying to lower spine extremity; else about very good. First edition of this book of village-inspired short stories by G'oncho Bielev (1889–1964), the Bulgarian writer and translator..... More

Price: €250.00

[STANDARDIZATION IN ARCHITECTURE] Industrializatsiia stroitel’stva i arkhitekturnoe nasledie [Industrial construction and architectural heritage].

Borisovskii, G[eorgii Borisovich].

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo po stroitel’stvu i arkhitekture, 1956. Octavo (22 × 17.5 cm). Original quarter cloth over boards; 217, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs, artistic drawings, and technical drawings. Boards lightly soiled and scuffed to edges. Still about very good. The first monograph by prominent Soviet theoretician of architecture..... More

Price: €350.00

[SOVIET RECEPTION OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitektura za rubezhom: organ Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury pri TsIK SSSR [Architecture abroad: organ of the All-Union Academy of Architecture], nos. 3, 5, 6 (1935)

Fridliand, I[osif], editor.

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1934–1937. Quartos (29.5 × 25.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 40–48 pp. Illustrations throughout including plans, photographs, technical drawings, elevations. Title page in Russian, French, and English. Light soil and discoloration to wrappers; chipping to pine; about good or better. Three issues of this bi-monthly journal..... More

Price: €450.00

[BULGARIAN AVANT-GARDE] Mulchalivi geroi [Silent heroes]. Two parts in one (all published).

Gabe, Dora and Sirak-Skitnik, designer.

Sofia: Khemus, [1931]. Octavo (22.3 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Sirak-Skitnik (?); 109, [3], 110, [3] pp. Wrappers rebacked; restorations; a few nicks to wrappers; still good or better; in protective mylar. First edition of this account of the life of Soviet military leader and veteran of the..... More

Price: €450.00

[CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE] Stil’ i epokha: problemy sovremennoi arkhitektury [Style and epoch: problems of contemporary architecture].

Ginzburg, M[oisei] Ia[kovlevich].

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1924. Octavo (23 × 18.5 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 238 pp. With [41] plates of illustrations as well as additional photographs, drawings, diagrams in the text. Professional restoration to wrapper edges and spine (original spine strip lacking); light soil to wrappers; text toned due to stock; overall..... More

Price: €1,200.00

[RARE AVANTGARDE JOURNAL OF THE SEGUNDO MODERNISMO] Sinal: publicação literária [The sign: a literary publication]. No. 1 (all published).

Rocha, Adolpho and Branquinho da Fonseca (editors).

Coimbra: Imprensa Académica, July 1930. Small quarto (25.5 × 19 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers with two-color printed linocut; 22 pp. (including insides of wrappers) with an original graphic illustration and numerous linocut title headings. Binding with barely noticeable, export restoration; sporadically somewhat fox-stained; else very good. Rare sole issue of..... More

Price: €2,800.00

[NEW STALINIST ARCHITECTURE – DNEPROSTROI] Planirovka i sotsialisticheskaia rekonstruktsiia gorodov. Vypusk VI. Arkhitekturnaia organizatsiia goroda [Planning and socialist reconstruction of cities. Volume VI. Architectural organization of the city].

Shchusev, A[leksei] V[iktorovich] and Zagorskii, L. E.

Along head of title: Sektor planirovki i sotsialisticheskoi rekonstruktsii gorodov vsesoiuznogo soveta po delam kommunal’nogo khoziaistva pri TsK SSSR. Moscow; Leningrad: ONTI Gosstroizdat, 1934. Large octavo (26.5 × 20 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 70, [2] pp. With 50 illustrations in text and additional 20 illustrations in appendix. In protective mylar..... More

Price: €950.00

[ALBERT KAHN IN THE USSR — CONSTRUCTIVIST INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE] Sovremennaia fabrichno-zavodskaia arkhitektura [Contemporary factory and industrial architecture].

Tsvetaev, V[ladimir] D[mitrievich] and Boris Titov, artist.

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosstroiizdat, 1933. Quarto (31 × 23.5 cm). Original embossed cloth over boards; 530 pp. With 635 drawings in the text. Spine lightly rubbed, corners and wrapper extremities lightly bumped and scuffed; lacking the dust jacket; else about very good. Second expanded and re-worked edition of this compendium on..... More

Price: €750.00

[ITALIAN FUTURISM AND MONUMENTALISM IN THE USSR] Massimo Kampil'i. Massimo Kampigli.

Zelenina, K[lavdiia Alekseevna] and N[ikolai] Sheverdiaev, artist.

Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1931. Octavo (17.7 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 46, [2] pp. Summary to last pages in French. Twenty full-page black and white reproductions. Book store stamps and inventory numbers to rear wrapper. Light wear and soil to wrappers; lower spine extremity frayed; still good or better. First..... More

Price: €350.00

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