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Alexander Rodchenko 
Book cover for Oleg Leonidov, 1939, Pervaia Konnaia [First Cavalry], (Moscow) 
1938 
  
Book cover 
Bassenge Photography Auctions 
Auction 104, 3 December 2014, 19th - 21st Century Photography, Lot: 4355 
  
 
LL/56146 
  
With numerous, partially full-page illustrations of photographs by Max Prekhner, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkady Shaikhet and Ivan Shagin, 1 double-page map in gold, numerous tipped in color plates and supplements. 35 x 30,5 cm. Original light green cloth on heavy rounded boards with red tooling on spine, red pressed title on front cover and red and white pressed vignette with a fight scene on horseback.
 
The "First Cavalry" presented in an opulent photo album designed by the artists Alexander Michailowitsch Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Warwara Fjodorowna Stepanowa (1894-1958). With numerous carefully printed maps, portraits, battle scenes and reproductions of paintings in deep black and gold, and much more.
 
Lit.: The Photobook I, 170-71. Getty 628. Hellyer 411. 
 

 
  
 
  
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