Russkii Revolyutsionny Plakat [Russian Revolutionary Posters]

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye Izdatel'stvo, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards in red and black, backstrip rebacked in cloth with wear at head. Very good. 192 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Fifty-six color lithographs and 129 black and white text illustrations, depicting more than 850 posters with descriptive text for each. A comprehensive catalogue of revolutionary posters by Demi, Ivanov, Lebedev, Mayakovsky, Melnikov, Moor, Spasky, Tcheremnick, et al., produced between 1917-1925 -- with homage to Marx and Lenin, the first two color plates. Index. Laid-in, practically every page type-written translation in German of poster headline. RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE BOOK 576. Owner inscription dated 1933, interior contents clean and fresh, extremity wear.