(LISSITZKY, EL.) USSR. An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the USSR. Text in English. Photographic illustrations and pictorial charts and diagrams, many in color, depicting aspects of Russian industry such as the Voroshilov Sanatorium in Sochi, many by Lissitzky who was also the primary designer of the book, with Alexander S. Grigorovich and Mikhail V. Nikolaev; several pages with die-cuts inserted. Oblong folio, original red cloth-covered flexible wrappers with hammer and sickle device in upper left corner of front cover, joints split, minor finger soiling; publisher's folded printed pamphlet laid in titled "Basic Indices of the Economic and Culrural Growth of the U.S.S.R. According to the Third Five-Year Plan. 1938-1942." First edition. The work is typical of the typographical work Lissitzky did for the government after his return to Russia from Germany in 1928 where he was highly influential in the Bauhaus movement. Not in Lissitsky-Kuppers. (Moscow), Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics, [1939]