stetsky (7 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Pamphlet, wrapps., 30pp. Sl. dampstaining to covers, contents not affected, VG+. Very tight, nice copy.

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Marks to the boards. A good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. Red & white dust jacket front & rear panels glued onto the book's covers. Dust jacket flaps tipped in on the insides of the front & back covers. Some text underlined, contents otherwise fine. 8vo, 277pp.

Condición: Good. Good condition. Bookplate inside has been removed leaving residue. Stamped on inside. (Russia, History, Communism, social Conditions).

Hard. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Text bright, binding firm, scuffing and foxing to dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: g. First edition. Octavo. 278 (1)pp. Original red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Red top edge. Reports and speeches from the first All-Union of Soviet writers in August 1934. Essay by the "great proletarian author" Maxim Gorky on Soviet Literature with obvious party-line connotations: "The role of the labour processes, which have converted a two-legged animal into man and created the basic elements of culture, has never been investigated as deeply and thoroughly as it deserves. This is quite natural, for such research would not be in the interest of the exploiters of labour." (Gorky). In the introduction the tremendous achievement to include all literature in the languages of national minorities is accentuated. Other contributions include Karl Radek's "Contemporary world literature and the tasks of proletarian art." Illustrated with full-page reproductions of b/w portrait photographs of contributors. Binding rubbed with a few small stains. Previous owner's name inked onto front endpaper. Book block lightly age-toned. Starting at pages 113 and 177. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. First edition. Quarto. 312 (2,10)pp. Original red faux half leather over paper covered boards illustrated with film imagery and red lettering on covers, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Inside covers and endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper, printed in orange. Color illustrated half-title and title page, both with film strips in color. Each chapter with cover page showing its number in a lithographically printed red square. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Elaborate publication celebrating fifteen years of Soviet cinema with contributions by B. Shumyatsky, A. Stetsky and A. Arossev and many others. Chapter two elaborates on the basic trends in Soviet film art as well as literature on the subject, followed by twenty-one biographical notes on the premiere Soviet filmmakers, incl. A. Dovzhenko, V. Pudovkin, S. Eisenstein and others. The volume covers cinematography in "Soviet White Russia, the Ukraine, Armenia and the Central Asia Republics of the USSR. Chapter five is dedicated to the film "Chapayev", chapter six introduces Soviet newsreels, the film "Chelyuskin" and scientific-educational cinematography. Chapter seven treats the Soviet film industry, its popularization and cinema in the Collective Farms. Chapter eight with thirty short contributions of Soviet film art by thirty authors, including André Gide and Cecil B. de Mille and finally, in chapter nine, a chronology of Soviet film starting with Lenin's Decree on the nationalization of the film industry on August 27th, 1919, and a list of honors bestowed on workers in Soviet cinematography. The volume is profusely illustrated with b/w offset reproductions of cinematographer portraits, film stills throughout, some in color or sepia-toned, including a b/w fold-out of a cinema's audience in front of a big screen with a cutout, as issued, showing Lenin's head depicted in a photograph on the next page respectively the Lenin quote "Cinema is for us the most important for arts" on the previous page; this ploy is repeated on page 273 with a cutout, as issued, revealing a film still from the Eisenstein film "October" on the next, a head shot of Eisenstein on the previous page; missing the tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette. Four pages of advertisements at rear followed by ten pages with b/w offset reproductions of film still and posters, all posters featuring photomontages. Text printed to regular, photographs to glossy paper. Recto of back endpaper with stamp "4) N A7." Pages 197 through 200 with straight cuts in pages. Various pages with ball-point pen lines in geometrical fashion framing or connecting film imagery of the page.