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SAUTIN, Ivan and Ivan IVANITSKY (editors). An Alb

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Moscow: Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics, 1938. 148 pp. Oblong folio (240 x 348 mm). Color and black and white illustrations, designs and charts by Lissitzky, Grigorovich and Nikolaev. Red cloth wraps stamped in gilt. Condition: backstrip partially split at head and tail, wrapper edges lightly thumbsoiled, occasional light spotting to endpapers. extensively illustrated including many full-page color charts and graphs depicting aspects of Russian "State Organization," "Economic Construction," "Welfare and Culture" and "Position of Women" in the USSR. Also with an insert at the back of estimates to the third five-year plan (1938-1942). The present work is typical of the typographical work Lissitzky did for the Soviet government after his return to Russia from Germany in 1928 where he had been highly influential in the Bauhaus movement.

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