Russian Constructivist books held in the British Library: a selected list from A Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1934 (HLR 741.64 and YC.2006.b.2068) compiled by Peter Hellyer With indexes of artists and titles Books with Constructivist covers and/or design/illustrations 1. Afinogenov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich. Na perelome (v riady): drama v 4 deistviiakh i v 8 kartinakh. [At the turning point: a drama in 4 acts and 8 scenes.] Moscow: Moskovskoe teatral'noe izdatel'stvo, 1927. 88p. (Repertuar teatra Proletkul'ta.) Typographic constructivist design on cover bears the initials "KZ", and is attributed to K. Zdanevich in ZD. Cover is reproduced in SC2, p.121, fig.71 and in colour in MO, p.203. C.191.a.17. 2. Arkhitektura: raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta Vkhutemasa, 1920-1927. [Architecture: works from the Architecture Faculty at Vkhutemas.] Moscow: Izdanie Vkhutemasa, 1927. xiiip, 45 plates. Photographs of architectural projects including formal exercises by students as well as buildings. Cover with photomontage by El' Lisitskii is reproduced in colour in LB, p.61, fig. 80, in SC2, plate 14 and in MO, p.216. C.190.aaa.25. 3. Arkhitektura SSSR: organ Soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov. [Architecture of the USSR: organ of the Union of Soviet Architects.] Moscow, 1933- . BL holdings: 1933, nos. 1, 2; 1934, nos. 1-12; 1935, nos. 1-12; 1936- . Cover design for 1933, no.1 et seq. by El' Lisitskii is reproduced in EL, fig.7. and the same design for 1934, no.1 is reproduced in SC2, p.143, no.82. PP.1667.h. 4. Aseev, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Izbran' stikhi 1912-1922. [Selected verse, 1912-1922.] Moscow; St Petersburg: Krug, 1923. 132p. Cover by A. Rodchenko. On the back cover appears the publisher's device for Krug, initialled by Iu. Annenkov. Front cover is reproduced in OL, p.75, fig.53 and in colour in LB, p.83, fig. 132 and MO, p.189; both covers are reproduced in KM, p.130. See EL, no.416 for list of contents. Cup.410.f.70. Another copy: X.908/90037 5. Bezymenskii, Aleksandr Il'ich. Partbilet No. 224332: stikhi o Lenine. [Party membership card number 224332: poems about Lenin.] 3rd. ed. Moscow; Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1930. 93p. Cover with photomontage illustrations on front and back by Gustav Klutsis is reproduced in MO, p.238. X.907/2679. 6. Biznes: sbornik Literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov. [Business: a collection of the Literary Centre of Constructivists.] Edited by K. Zelinskii and I. Sel'vinskii. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1929. 260p. BL copy lacks the photomontage paper cover attributed to A. Rodchenko in EL, fig.22 and to S. Telingater in WE. Cover reproduced in colour in LB, p.45, fig.44 and in MO, p.213. 12349.s.18. 7. Bobrov, Sergei Pavlovich. Vosstanie mizantropov. [Revolt of the misanthropes.] Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1922. 160p. Cover designed by L.S. Popova, back cover uses Tsentrifuga emblem by N. Goncharova. Cover is reproduced in colour in LB, p.100, fig.148. Cup.408.d.35. 8. Brigada khudozhnikov: organ Federatsii ob"edinenii sovetskikh khudozhnikov. [Artists' brigade: organ of the Federation of Soviet Artists.] 1932, no.2(9)-6, 7 (Feb. - June 1932). Moscow, 1932. P.P.8004.us. 9. Brik, Osip Maksimovich. Ne poputchitsa. [Not a fellow traveller.] Moscow; Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [LEF], 1923. 36p. Izdatel'stvo LEF on back cover. Cover by A. Lavinskii from a preliminary design by V. Maiakovskii. Cover is reproduced in: SC2, p.56, fig.26; OL, p.74, fig.49; and in colour in LB, p.80, fig.124 and in MO, p.209. Cup.408.g.24. 10. Chernikhov, Iakov Georgievich. Arkhitekturnye fantazii: 101 kompozitsiia v kraskakh: 101 arkhitekturnaia miniatiura (Architectural fantasies: 101 compositions in colour: 101 architectural miniatures.] By Ia. Chernikhov, with D. Kopanitsyn and E. Pavlova. Leningrad: Izdanie Leningradskogo oblastnogo otdeleniia Vsesoiuznogo ob"edineniia "Mezhdunarodnaia kniga", 1933. 102p. Title page in English bears title "Architectural fictions". No.28 is reproduced in MO, p.227. C.185.bb.5. 11. Daesh'! [Let's produce!] Ed. by M. Kostelovskaia. No. 1 - 14 (complete run). Moscow: Rabochaia Moskva, 1929. Covers (some with photomontage) by D. Moor, A. Deineka, Dobrokovskii and A. Rodchenko. This journal has a constructivist typographic design with each issue limited to 2 colours. Illustrations include avant-garde photographs by A. Rodchenko, B. Ignatovich and D. Debabov, as well as photomontage and caricatures. Covers of no.6 and 10 are reproduced in MO, p.237. RF.2004.b.32. 12. Dollar, Dzhim (Jim), (pseudonym of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian). Mess Mend ili Ianki v Petrograde. [Miss Mend or the Yankee in Petrograd a novel.] See No. 94. Dollar, Dzhim (Jim), (pseudonym). SEE Shaginian, Marietta Sergeevna (real name). 13. Efros, Abram Markovich. S. Chekhonin. [S. Chekhonin.] By A.M. Efros and N. Punin. Moscow; Leningrad, State Press, [1924] 104p. English language edition. Cover design in suprematist style is by S. Chekhonin. L.42/291 14. Epopeia: literaturnyi ezhemesiachnik. [Epopée: literary monthly.] Edited by A. Belyi. No.1( April 1922); No.2 (September 1922) and No.3 (January 1923 - though December 1922 on cover). Moscow; Berlin: Gelikon, 1922. Typographic cover design by El' Lisitskii. Cover of no.1 is reproduced in LB, p.115, fig.185, and in OL, p.65, fig.39; cover of no.2 is reproduced in EL (where the contents of the journal are described), fig. 54 and SC2, p.99, fig.56. Ownership inscription, dated 1922, by A. Remizov. BL copy is laminated. Cup.410.f.427. 15. Erenburg, Il'ia Grigor'evich. Materializatsiia fantastiki. [Materialization of the fantastic.] Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat', 1927. 30p. (Kinopechat'; no.126). Constructivist design and photomontage on two-colour covers by A. Rodchenko. Cover is reproduced in EL, fig. 58 and in colour in LB, p.71, fig.109, SC2, plate 10 and MO, p.215. C.136.b.35. 16. Erenburg, Il'ia Grigor'evich. Trinadtsat' trubok. [Thirteen pipes.] Moscow; Berlin: Gelikon, 1923. 257p. Cover by Liubov' Kozintseva is reproduced in MO, p.202. Title on cover : 13 trubok. 012591.aa.39. 17. Erenburg, Il’ia and El’ Lisitskii. Moi Parizh. [My Paris] by Il’ia Erenburg and El’ Lisitskii. Moscow: Izobrazitel’noe iskusstvo, 1933. 235p. Cover reproduced in MO, pp. 218-19 18. Erste Russische Kunstausstellung. [First Russian art exhibition.] Berlin: Galerie Van Diemen, 1922. 31p,[45p of plates]. Cover design by El' Lisitskii is reproduced in EL, fig. 279 and in LB, fig.51 (see also projects for cover in LB, fig.52, 53) and in MO, p.197. Cup.410.f.119. Forsh, Ol'ga Dmitrievna see Terek, A. (pseudonym) 19. Fülöp-Muller, René The Russian Theatre. By René Fülöp-Muller and Joseph Gregor. London: Harrap, 1930. Includes constructivist sets and costume design. 11795. tt.15 20. Gan, Aleksei Mikhailovich. Konstruktivizm. [Constructivism.] Tver': Tverskoe izdatel'stvo, 1922. 70p. The cover by Gan is reproduced in colour in LB, p.61, fig.78 and in MO, p.200. An unused design for the cover by A. Rodchenko is reproduced in LA, fig. 26. Cup.410.g.220. Microfilm copy: MIC.A.7177. 21. Ginsburger, Roger. Frankreich: die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form. [France: the development of new ideas of construction and form.] Vienna: Anton Schroll and Co. 1930. 132p. (Neues Bauen in der Welt; Bd.3.) Cover with lithographed lettering and photographic illustration by El' Lisitskii is reproduced in MO, p.229. 7822.d.24/3. 22. Ginzburg, Moisei Iakovlevich. Stil' i epokha: problemy sovremennoi arkhitektury. [Style and epoch: problems of contemporary architecture.] Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, [1924]. 238p. Model of a set by A. Vesnin is reproduced in SC2, p.110, fig.64. X.421/22844. 23. Gorin, Aleksandr. Kto, chto, kogda v Moskovskom Kamernom teatre 1914-1924. [Who, what, when in the Moscow Kamerny Theatre 1914-1924.] [Moscow, 1924?]. Pages not numbered. Designed by G. Stenberg. Cover reproduced in SC2, p.109, fig.63. Cup.1264.gg.23. 24. Gorn: literaturno-khudozhestvennyi i obshchestvenno-nauchnyi zhurnal. [Furnace: literary-artistic and social-scientific journal.] Kn. 1, 4, 8, 9. Moscow: izdanie Vserossiiskogo i Moskovskogo Proletkul'tov, 1918- 1923. Cover of kn. 1 (1918) is reproduced in SC2, p.50, fig.23a. Typographic cover of kn.8 and 9 designed by G. Klutsis is reproduced in in SC2, p.51, fig.23b. Publisher's device on back cover designed by S. Sen'kin. PP.4842.cep. 25. Gozzi, Carlo, Count. Printsessa Turandot... [Princess Turandot.] Moscow; Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, [1923]. 222p. On Vakhtangov's production of the play at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Includes colour plates and production photographs. Cover and illustrations by I. Nivinskii. Cover is reproduced in SC2, plate 11. Cup.410.c.86. 26. Imazhinisty. [Imagists.] By R. Ivnev, A. Mariengof, M. Roizman, V. Shershenevich. Moscow: Izdanie avtorov, 1925. 38p. Cover design attributed to G. Stenberg is reproduced in LB, p.121, fig.206, in SC2, p.57, fig.27 and in MO, p.213. C.191.b.4. 27. Iskusstvo kommuny. [Art of the commune.] No.1 (7 Dec. 1918) - no.19(13 Apr. 1919). Peterburg: Izdanie Otdela izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1918-1919. BL holdings: nos. 1-12, 13(in xerox), 14-16, (17 in xerox), 18, 19. Newspaper masthead of no.4, 1918 (designer unidentified) is reproduced in SC2, p.46, fig.21. C.191.c.6. 28. Iskusstvo v proizvodstve: sborniki Khudozhestvenno- Proizvodstvennogo soveta Otdela izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv Narkomprosa. [Production art: collection of the Art-Industrial Council of the Department of Visual Arts of the Comissariat of Enlightenment.] Vol.1. Moscow: [Khudozhestvenno-Proizvodstvennyi sovet Otdela izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv Narkomprosa], 1921. Cover lithograph attributed to D.