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New York: Amtorg Trading Corporation. Good+. 1929. Softcover. Moderately soiled and edgeworn wrappers, mild creasing, small tear lower spine end. Solid binding and clean text. Illustrated in b/w. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Grand Central Palace/ Printed by Redfield-Downey-Odell, 1929. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 37 unpaginated leaves. Illustrated white, red and black paper wrappers, with lettering in black and red on the front cover. Frontispiece in b/w. Illustrated catalogue for the Russian art exhibition held in February of 1929, at the Grand Central Palace in New York City. This massive exhibition sponsored by the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the official trade office of the Soviet Union in the United States, featured more than 600 works by hundreds of Soviet artists across the disciplines of painting, graphic art and sculpture. Displayed in the catalogue are b/w photographic reproductions of work by such noted artists as Nathan Altman (1889-1970), David Shterenberg (1881-1948), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Aleksei Ilyich Kravchenko (1889-1940), Yuri Pimenov (1903-1977), and Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930), among many others. Contains b/w lithographic images of some of the graphic artist's works, as… Read More