Moscow, 1924. POLONSKII, VYCHESLAV. 1886-1932. Russkii Revolyutsionnyi Plakat. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo [State Publishing House], 1925. Quarto (298 x 225 mm). Text in Russian. Illustrated with 32 full-page color lithographic plates and 110 monochrome text illustrations. Publisher's original cream paper-covered boards, illustrated on the upper cover with a striking Constructivist-inspired design by Mikhail Cheremnykh, lower cover with publisher's advertisement. Rebacked with modern cloth, preserving the original pictorial boards. Light edge wear, minor scuffing, and expected toning to boards, shaken. FIRST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE SCHOLARLY STUDY OF EARLY SOVIET VISUAL PROPAGANDA. Published in a limited print run of only 3,000 copies, Vyacheslav Polonsky's Russkii Revolyutsionnyi Plakat stands as the inaugural and most rigorous Contemporary analysis of the Russian Civil War-era poster. Polonsky, a prominent literary critic and later director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, provides a deeply academic exploration of the psychology, aesthetic evolution, and political efficacy of mass-produced agitational art. The volume serves as an invaluable primary visual archive, meticulously inventorying and examining over 850 total works. Crucially, the monograph contains deep biographical and stylistic breakdowns of the movement's premier graphic masters-including Dmitry Moor, Viktor Deni, Vladimir Lebedev, and Mikhail Cheremnykh. It also features crucial coverage of the revolutionary text-and-image 'ROSTA Windows' (Okna ROSTA) collaborated on by Vladimir Mayakovsky. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing