May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SOVIET UNION.) Moscow * Tragediinaia Noch [Tragedy Night]. Together, 2 volumes. Each illustrated with reproductions of propogandist images of Russian life and culture. 4tos, the former with gilt-lettered textured maroon cloth, and the latter with silver-lettered pictorial cloth and the original glassine outer wrapper, each volume lightly worn. first editions. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939; Moscow, 1935

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The first volume, MOSCOW, offers an idealized look at life in the Soviet Union. The second volume contains text by the Constructivist poet A. Bezymenskii detailing the construction of the Dneprogress hydroelectric station.