Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection

Large Collection of Booklets on Cinema and Theatre – Moscow and Leningrad, 1920s-1930s – Modernist Covers – Photos and Illustrations

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
A collection of 30 booklets and books about the world of cinema and theatre in Russia and abroad. Moscow and Leningrad, 1926-1936. Russian (one book in French). With numerous photos and illustrations; covers in modernist design by various artists.

• Барбара Ля-Мар [Barbara La Marr (stage name of American actress Reatha Dale Watson)], by Vladimir Korolevich. Moscow: Кинопечать, 1926. Cover designed by Mikhail Getmansky (Михаил Пантелеймонович Гетманский; 1900-?).

• Мери Пикфорд и Дуглас Фербенкс в СССР [Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in the USSR], edited by N.M. Yakovlev (Яковлева). Moscow: Кинопечать, 1926. Cover designed by Konstantin Vyalov (Константин Александрович Вялов; 1900-1976).

• Руфь Роллан, about American actress Ruth Roland, by K. Oganesov (Оганесов). Moscow: Кинопечать, 1926. Cover designed by Konstantin Vyalov (Константин Александрович Вялов; 1900-1976).

• Крупным планом, Кино-рассказы [Close-up, Cinema Stories], by Viktor Ardov (pen name of Viktor Zilberman; 1900-1976). Moscow-Leningrad: Кинопечать, 1926. Cover designed by S. Yutkevich (С. Юткевича).

• Кин, (Гений беспутства) [Kean, Genius of Debauchery], based on a play by Alexandre Dumas père. Leningrad: Кинопечать, [1926].

• Советский Экран [Soviet Screen], a magazine about the film industry in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Kino-Izdatelstvo RSFSR / Tea-kino-pechat, 1925-1929. Eight issues: 1925, issue no. 32; 1926, issues no. 6, 9, 10 and 45; 1927, issues no. 6 and 39; 1929, issue no. 12. Covers designed by Pyotr Galadzhev (Пётр Галаджев), Yuri Pimenov (Юрий Пименов) and other artists.

• Актер американского кино [American Cinema Actor], by Ilya Trauberg. Leningrad: Academia, 1927. Cover designed by Valentina Khodasevich (Валентина Михайловна Ходасевич; 1894-1970).

• Камерный театр [Chamber Theatre], by Yakov Apushkin (Апушкин). Moscow-Leningrad: Кинопечать, 1927. Cover designed by brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg (Стенберг). MoMA 718.

• Жизнь трёх клоунов, Воспоминания трио Фрателлини, записанные Пьером Мариелем [Life of Three Clowns, Memories of the Fratellini Trio...], by Pierre Mariel, translated from German to Russian by Polina Bernstein. [Leningrad: Прибой, 1927]. Cover and illustrations by Boris Tatarinov (Борис Фёдорович Татаринов; 1899-1942).

• Пат и Паташон [Pat and Patachon (Danish comic duo, stars of silent films)], by Vladimir Korolevich. Moscow-Leningrad: Кинопечать, 1927. Cover designed by Lev Lozovsky (Лев Григорьевич Лозовский; 1890-?).

• Турнэ по СССР, tour of the USSR by the Musical Theatre under the direction of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, organized by the Soviet Labor Office. Moscow: театр бывш. Музыкальной студии МХАТ Государственного, [1927].

• Дуглас Фербенкс [Douglas Fairbanks], by Alexander Nikolaevich Abramov. Moscow: Кинопечать, 1927. Cover designed by Ц.С.Г.

• Путь актера [The Path of the Actor], by Michael Chekhov. Leningrad: Academia, 1928. Cover designed by El Lissitzky.

• Путь актера [The Path of the Actor], by Michael Chekhov. Leningrad: Academia, 1928. Cover designed by Valentina Khodasevich (Валентина Михайловна Ходасевич; 1894-1970).

• Американцы дома [Americans at Home], about the personal lives of American film actors, by Edgar Arnoldi (Арнольди). Moscow-Leningrad: Теа-кино-печать, 1928. Cover designed by Alexei Ushin (Алексей Алексеевич Ушин; 1903-1942).

• Младенческие годы русского кино [The Infant Years of Russian Cinema], by Vsevolod Tchaikovsky (Чайковский); with an introduction by Grigory Boltyansky (Болтянский). Moscow: Теа-кино-печат, 1928. Cover designed by I. Ushin (И. Ушин).

• Лиа де Путти, on Hungarian actress Lya De Putti, by Alexandra Tatarova (Татарова). Moscow: Теа-кино-печать, 1928. Cover designed by A. Pavlov (Павлов).

• Вернер Краусс, on German actor Werner Krauss, by Boris Masing (Мазинг). Moscow-Leningrad: Tеа-кино-печать, 1928. Cover designed by Yakov Guminer (Яков Моисеевич Гуминер; 1896-1942).

• Н. Рогожин [N. Rogozhin], on film actor Nakhum Rogozhin, by L. Dombrovsky (Домбровский). Moscow-Leningrad: Кинопечать, 1928.

• Вильям Десмонд и трюковая фильма [William Desmond and the Stunt Film], by Nakhum Osipovich Kaufman (Наум Осипович Кауфман). [Leningrad]: Теа-кино-печать, 1928.

• Пауль Вегенер [Paul Wegener], by Boris Masing (Мазинг). Moscow-Leningrad: Теа-кино-печать, 1928.

• ФЭКС, Григорий Козинцов, Леонид Трауберг, on the work of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg in the avant-garde film collective "Factory of the Eccentric Actor" (ФЭКС). With an introduction by literary scholar Viktor Shklovsky. Moscow-Leningrad: Теа-кино-печать, 1928.

• Дельцы, "что надо" (Ein besserer herr), Пьеса в 8 картинах, Russian translation of a play by German-Jewish writer Walter Hasenclever, with an introduction by Boris Masing (Мазинг). Moscow-Leningrad: Теа-кино-печать, 1929. Cover designed by Yakov Guminer (Яков Моисеевич Гуминер; 1896-1942).

• Кино завтра [The Cinema of Tomorrow], by Vadim Furduev (Фурдуев; Soviet scholar in acoustics and cinema hall architecture). Moscow-Leningrad: Московский рабочий, 1929. Cover designed by Nikolai Sedelnikov (Николай Михайлович Седельников; 1905-1994). Dedication on endpaper.

• Новый Вавилон / La Nouvelle Babylone, a work on the 1929 silent film "The New Babylon" directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, with a soundtrack by Dmitri Shostakovich. Leningrad: Теа-кино-печать, [1929?]. Cover designed by N. Ushin (Ушина).

• А. Кторов, on actor Alexander Ktorov by Vadim Shershenevich (Габриэлевич). [Ленинград]: Теа-кино-печать, 1929.

• Японское кино [Japanese Cinema], by Nakhum Kaufman, with an afterword by director Sergei Eisenstein. [Moscow]: Теа-кино-печать, 1929.

• Le Cinema en URSS [Cinema in the USSR], edited by Alexander Arosev (Александр Яковлевич Аросев; 1890-1938). Moscow: VOKS, 1936. French. Photomontage images by Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova.

• Человек невидимка [The Invisible Man], screenplay by Edgar Arnoldi (Арнольди), based on the American horror film "The Invisible Man" directed by James Whale (adaptation of the novel by British author H.G. Wells). [Leningrad]: ЛОК Россснабфильм, 1935. Cover designed by A. Vasiliev (А. Васильев).

• Комаринский мужик, Опера в 4 актах и в 8 картинах [The Peasant from Komarino, Opera in Four Acts and Eight Scenes], text by Osip Brik (Брик), music by Valery Zhelobinsky (Желобинский). Leningrad: Малый оперный театр, 1933-1934.

38 booklets and books. Size and condition vary.
Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)
Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)