RUSSIAN NORTHERN SEA ROUTE – SHMIDT, Otto Iul’evich, BAEVSKII, I.L. and MEKHLIS, L.Z. (editors). Geroicheskaia epopeia. Pokhod “Cheliuskina” [and] Kak my spasali Cheliuskintsev. [The Heroic Epic, The Voyage of the Cheluishin [and] How we rescued the Cheluishinitz.] Moscow: Pravda, 1934. The first edition, deluxe issue. The Lada-Mocarski copy of the official history of the Cheliuskin epic – the most glorified and mythologized tale of Arctic exploration in 20th-century Russia. “The Politburo sponsored and funded the publication of the three books, and the results were spectacular. For those accustomed to the general shoddiness of the majority of books published in the USSR during the 1930s, [this] stands out like a Gutenberg Bible in the middle of a rummage sale” (McCannon). The design team included Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). This set is apparently from a deluxe issue: the publisher's binding includes pictorial plastic mounts not found on every copy of this title. This edition precedes the quarto version published the following year that is ranked “among the grandest Soviet photobooks” ( The Photobook ). Arctic Bib. 15958, 15961; McCannon, Red Arctic. Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 (New York: OUP, 1998), p.119; The Photobook , vol. I, p.164. Three volumes, octavo (245 x 169mm). 30 plates including some folding, most with printed tissue guard; five color-printed folding maps, illustrations and halftone photographic reproductions throughout (margins lightly and evenly yellowed; folding maps and plates occasionally with short tears near the fold). Publisher’s original beige cloth; a large white plastic panel engraved with scene mounted on the front cover of each volume, the scene different for each; the front covers titled in bronze foil; the spines titled in white; illustrated endpapers (front joints split but holding; spine ends and extremities lightly rubbed; light soiling). Provenance : Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarksi (label; gifted to:) – Yale University (bookplate; small deaccession stamp) – William Reese Co.
RUSSIAN NORTHERN SEA ROUTE – SHMIDT, Otto Iul’evich, BAEVSKII, I.L. and MEKHLIS, L.Z. (editors). Geroicheskaia epopeia. Pokhod “Cheliuskina” [and] Kak my spasali Cheliuskintsev. [The Heroic Epic, The Voyage of the Cheluishin [and] How we rescued the Cheluishinitz.] Moscow: Pravda, 1934. The first edition, deluxe issue. The Lada-Mocarski copy of the official history of the Cheliuskin epic – the most glorified and mythologized tale of Arctic exploration in 20th-century Russia. “The Politburo sponsored and funded the publication of the three books, and the results were spectacular. For those accustomed to the general shoddiness of the majority of books published in the USSR during the 1930s, [this] stands out like a Gutenberg Bible in the middle of a rummage sale” (McCannon). The design team included Solomon Telingater (1903-1969). This set is apparently from a deluxe issue: the publisher's binding includes pictorial plastic mounts not found on every copy of this title. This edition precedes the quarto version published the following year that is ranked “among the grandest Soviet photobooks” ( The Photobook ). Arctic Bib. 15958, 15961; McCannon, Red Arctic. Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 (New York: OUP, 1998), p.119; The Photobook , vol. I, p.164. Three volumes, octavo (245 x 169mm). 30 plates including some folding, most with printed tissue guard; five color-printed folding maps, illustrations and halftone photographic reproductions throughout (margins lightly and evenly yellowed; folding maps and plates occasionally with short tears near the fold). Publisher’s original beige cloth; a large white plastic panel engraved with scene mounted on the front cover of each volume, the scene different for each; the front covers titled in bronze foil; the spines titled in white; illustrated endpapers (front joints split but holding; spine ends and extremities lightly rubbed; light soiling). Provenance : Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarksi (label; gifted to:) – Yale University (bookplate; small deaccession stamp) – William Reese Co.
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