Hardcover. St. Petersburg, Palace Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. A book more about art than a book of art. Khardzhiev, though apparently not a painter himself, was an heroic figure in the world of Russian art. Despite official discouragement and prohibitions, he assembled an awesome personal collection of avant-garde Soviet art. He knew the artists personally, and gave them aid and comfort. there are samples of his writing (in English). There are 100 pages of large, high-quality reproductions of drawings and paintings in his collection with notes and bibliography. Most of the works are from the Khardzhiev-Chaga Foundation in Amsterdam,though a few are in private collections, and there are some which Khardzhiev was not allowed to take out of Russia, and were thus previously unknown in the West.

Hardcover. New York , Tekhne, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages of text, 292 plates, almost all in b&w, some color. Blue cloth covers with gilt design. INSCRIBED BY ARCIPENKO on the page following the title. One page has been carefully excised and laid back in (plate #33-35). Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Russia, Contemporary Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. Only 2000 copies printed. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature scribbled over on front end paper, light wear to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwich House, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. 185 photographs, including more than 100 in full color. Brown leatherette. gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to edges, otherwise like new. Journeys through the world of Carl Faberge to explore some of his elaborate and exquisite gold pieces and to provide information on his craftsmen, art, and aristocratic patrons.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton - New York, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in full color. Large folio. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning showcase of Erte"s graphics completed at the time of publication with an additional 27 graphics added since the first edition (Erte at Ninety). Erte was a leading light in the Art Deco style and this book belongs in the library of anyone with an interest in the genre.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages illustrated throughout with 156 plates including 74 in full color. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Large folio. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Follows the artist from his birth in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, through the 1980's. Beautiful color plates include costume design, magazine covers (Harper's Bazar), sculpture, vases, mirrors, medallions, jewelry, labels, bottles, playing cards, watches.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text and Commentaries by Erte. Introduction by Alistar Duncan. Edited by Marshall Lee. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with very faint tanning to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy. Lavishly illustrated with full page color plates/ photographs by Lee Boltin depicting multiple views of forty-one bronze sculptures by the author. A fabulous cataloguing of Erte's evocative art deco sculpture.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Studio, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated throughout with 176 plates in full color. Additional text by Ray Perman and David Rogath and photographs by Daniel Kramer. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Romain de Tirtoff, who worked under the pseudonym Erte (the French pronunciation of his initials), was a celebrated artist and designer who produced 250 covers for "Harper's Bazaar" as well as fashion designs for some of the world's most glamorous stars, and costume & set designs for Hollywood and stage productions.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 199 pages. The artists' books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets--including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky--collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning 'beyond the mind') that was distinctive in its emphasis on 'sound as such' and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound difference between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Milano, Skira, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in full color. Clean, tight copy. This catalog of over three hundred artworks related to the Saisons Russes between 1909 and 1929 is the official companion to an exhibition in Monte Carlo. The legendary productions are brought to life through stage designs, costumes, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and programs. The artwork comes from a wide variety of public and private collections, including the Fokine collection in the St. Petersburg Theatre Museum.

Hardcover. New York, Aurora, 1st, Aurora, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 459 pages, 1430 illustrations, including 705 plates in full color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small scratch to front cover. Excellent reference copy.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dunlop Art Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 169 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, illustrated in color, b&w. How Constructivist artists in Russia between 1923 and 1925 developed a counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by producing objects meant to be "comrades" in the creation of an egalitarian socialist culture. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction. He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin. His Suprematist masterpiece, White Square on White (1920-27), continues to inspire artists throughout the world. Focused exclusively on this defining moment in Malevich's career, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism features nearly 120 paintings, drawings and objects, among them several recently discovered masterworks. In addition, the book includes previously unpublished letters, essays and diaries, along with essays by international scholars, who shed new light on this popular figure and his devotion to the spiritual in art.

Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy. 100 color plates with 39 black & white illustrations.

Hardcover. Sverdlovsk, Mid-Urals Publishing House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Beautiful 2 volume set exploring the history and various uses and creations of Malachite. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. In pristine condition with original pictorial slip cover (slight edge-wear). Book 1: Poetics of Stone. Book 2:Chronicles Documents Commentaries. Text in Russian and English.

Hardcover. Intercourse, Pennsylvania, Good Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The furniture tradition of the Mennonites, Russian immigrants in North America. 231 pages illustrated with several maps and 241 (mostly color, some black/white) photographic illustrations. Book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with some signs of edge wear.

Softcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. London, Fuel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 192 pages. Plutser-Sarno has been collecting Russian street messages, usually hand-written and posted on walls, for two decades; this book is a sampling from his Museuam of Ads and Announcements. The notes are of a great variety: seeking recruits for cults or prostitution, offering items, some of them bizzare ones, for barter, warning miscreants of dire harm should they, for example, continue to steal light bulbs from a common corridor, prohibiting--predictably--a wide range of activities, and occasionally pleading in tones of insanity.Many of the messages are shown in illustrations, and Pluter-Sarno offers brief comments, sometimes necessary ones: Without them I shouldn't have known, for example, that 'artificial rock' was a euphemism for a concrete slab. (I'm sorry though that he didn't explain what curious Slavic behaviors created the need for notices in public lavoratories asking users to abstain from standing on toilet bowls.) Given the range of notes here, it's possible for the reader to get a hint of Soviet and post-Soviet customs and beliefs, the daily struggling with poverty and paucity, and the impact of the political upon the individual.Because Fuel, the publisher, is a design company it's small wonder that as an object this is a wonderful book. It's a small hardback with a cover done in relief, and sewn in signatures. The outer 2/3 of the pages are a kraft-paper brown and the inner 1/3, with colour illustrations, a cream color.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 128 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH EDITORS on the front endpapers. Contributors include Dziga Vertov ('The Factory of Facts and Other Writings'), Alfred H. Barr, Jr. ('Russian Diary 1927-28', along with Jere Abbott, John E. Bowlt, and Elizabeth Jones), A. V. Lunacharsky ('Gogol-Meyerhold's "The Inspector-General"'), Paul Schmidt (on Meyerhold), Margit Rowell (on Vladimir Tatlin), and Michelson. Related ephemera laid in.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages. Blue cloth boards. Pictorial dust jacket is tinted with light fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.