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[COLLECTIVE]. Decorative and Industrial Art of the USSR. Moscow: Committee of the USSR Section at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, 1925. — In-4, 269 x 200: 94 pp., (1 blank folio), XXVIII pp. of catalog, 13 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback. A sought-after first edition of the catalog-manifesto for the Soviet pavilion at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Designed and printed in Russia but published in French for an international audience, the volume is both a document of cultural diplomacy and a masterpiece of Constructivist book design. With a preface by P. Cogan, president of the USSR Section Committee, it includes contributions by O. D. Kameneff, Anatole Lunacharsky, People’s Commissar for Public Education, and the critics Victor Nicolsky, J. Tugendhold, N. Bartram, D. Arkine, Dm. Ivanoff, A. Lebedeff, A. A. Sidoroff, Abram Efross, N. Dokoutchaeff, and D. Sterenberg, compiled under the direction of P. Kogan, Victor Nicolsky, and I. Tugendhold. The edition had a print run of 3,000 copies. It is illustrated with numerous reproductions in the text and 13 plates. Beautiful lithographed typographic cover by the Russian painter, sculptor, and designer Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), who received the silver medal at the Exhibition for this design. A very well-preserved copy, complete with all 28 pages of advertisements at the end.