The Book; Researches and Materials Symposia Part I
Moscow: All-Union Book Chamber, 1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. 1 of 4000. Hardcover. Text is in Russian. 318, [6] pages, Footnotes. Illustrations. Endpaper discoloration. Errata slip. Title pages in English (on left) and Russian (on right). Table of Contents in Russian (on left) and English (on right). Cover has wear and soiling. Part I is complete as is; presumed later parts issued annually. The contents include: Forty Years of Soviet Book Designing by V. N. Lyakhov; Soviet Scientific Series by I. M. Kaufman; My work in Book Illustration by A. D. Goncharov; From the History of Russian Book Binding by S. A. Klepikov; The Mamponichis' Printing Shop in Wilmo (17th Century) by A. S. Zernova; Main Features of Book Designing the time of Peter I by T. A. Bykova; Dramatisheski Vestnik (150 Years of the First Russian Theatrical Journal) by S. M. Babintsev; From the Archives of Russian Bibliographers, by I. A. Mezhenko; Rare Books by I. N. Rozanov; The Beginning of Soviet Book Trade by N. N. Nakoryakov, and Fifty Meetings of the Book Section...Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S. R. More