[Architecture. Japanese Imprints]

(Russian Architecture).  Zaikin no sovueto kenchiku [Current Soviet Architecture].  Tokyo: Nauka, 1934



8vo (8 5/8 x 6 in.; 218 x 153 mm).  Title-page printed in brown with vignette after Chernikov design, 16 pages of photographic plates, numerous text illustrations; minor browning at edges.  Publisher green cloth, design by Chernikov in black on front cover; spine and extremities faded, endpapers browned.  Publisher's orange dust-jacket with vignette by Chernikov; spine browned, tears to spine and extremities skillfully restored.

8vo (8 5/8 x 6 in.; 218 x 153 mm). Title-page printed in brown with vignette after Chernikov design, 16 pages of photographic plates, numerous text illustrations; minor browning at edges. Publisher green cloth, design by Chernikov in black on front cover; spine and extremities faded, endpapers browned. Publisher's orange dust-jacket with vignette by Chernikov; spine browned, tears to spine and extremities skillfully restored..
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An important book on Soviet architecture, divided into two parts.  Part I is Roman Hiegeru's "Ideas of Soviet Architecture," and part II is Yakov Chernikov's "Architectural Fantasies."