Avant-garde - Russia - Arkin, David E. Arhitektura... Lot 916

Avant-garde - Russia - Arkin, David E. Arhitektura sovremennogo Zapada. (The modern architecture of the West). Cover and dust jacket design and layout by El Lissitzky, with numerous photographic and graphic illustrations. Moscow, Izogiz, 1932. 185 p., 1 p. 27 x 20 cm. Silver-stamped original cloth binding with illustrated original dust jacket (jacket browned, several partly larger tears, small marginal defects, corners somewhat bumped). First edition. - Hellyer, 13th - The author only provided a general editorial and critical contribution, while the subjects of the edition are by famous architects such as Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, J. P. Oud, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. - Each with a small ownership and inventory note on the front endpaper and on the title page, a few of the barely browned pages with small markings in lead. VAT: *