[Lazar M. Lisitsky (Lissitzky), et. al., designers]. [Ivan V. Sautin, et. al., editors]. USSR. An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R. Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics, [1939]. First edition of this beautifully designed and executed propaganda book. Text in English. Oblong folio. 9.5 x 13.5 inches. [149] pages. Several pages with die-cuts inserted and reckoned within pagination. Two half-pages inserted throughout (not reckoned within pagination). Publishers full red cloth over limp boards, gilt-stamped hammer and sickle in the upper left corner of the front board. Spine perished, covers soiled, rubbed, with both corners bumped, light toning and very minor thumbsoiling in text. A fair copy of a beautiful book. Lisitsky (Lissitzky) and his co-designers make dry statistics come alive with vibrant, easy-to-understand graphics. From the collection of Zita Books.
Not in Lissitsky-Kuppers