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LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illu

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Posdam: Gutsav Kiepenheuer, 1927. Second edition. 112 pp., 8vo (245 x 170 mm). Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated with 11 plates (three in color) of production stills and costume designs by Alexandra Exter, the Stenberg Brothers, Aleksandr Vesnin and others. Original gray cloth boards with decorated paper labels in red and black designed by Lissitzky, spine lettered in black. Condition: covers slightly discolored and thumbsoiled, minor rubbing to extremities; small dampstain to preliminaries and first few leaves not affecting text. recollections of the kamernyi theater in moscow by its founder. Tairov's chamber theater was one of the most influential experimental theaters of the early Soviet Union. The book is appropriately dedicated to Alisa Koonen, Tairov's wife and muse. The cover design is typical of Lissitzky's work during his Bauhaus years in Berlin. [With:] FILIPPOV, Vladimir (1889-1965) Malyi teatr [The Little Theater]. [Moscow]: Tea-Kino-Pechat, 1928. 80pp., small 8vo (175 x 135 mm). Illustrated with photogravures. Original two-color decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers slightly discolored. One of 3000 copies A monograph on the great experimental Moscow theater. [And:] VERKOVSKII, N. Kukolnye teatry [Puppet Theaters]. Leningrad: OGIZ, 1934. 80 pp., small 8vo (175 x 135 mm). Illustrated with photogravures. Original white wrappers designed by I. Berezark. Condition: wrappers restored. One of 3250 copies. A collection of essays on Soviet puppetry, including four by the great modern puppet pioneer Evgenii Sergeevich Demmeni (1898-1969), who founded the Theatre of Petrushka in 1924. [And:] FAVORSKII, Vladimir Andreevich (1886-1964) (illustrator) and others. Moskovskii teatr revoliutsii 1922-1932 [The Revolutionary Theater in Moscow from 1922 to 1932]. [Moscow]: Mosoblispolkom, 1933. 224 pp., 8vo (255 x 180 mm). Illustrated with tipped-in sepia photogravures and wood engravings by V. A. Favorskii and others. Original decorated boards. One of 3100 copies. Collection of essays on the first ten years of post-Revolutionary Russian theater. (4)

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