Telingater, S[olomon Benediktovich] (1903 - 1969), designer. KUKRYNIKSY, artists.	Khozhdenie po mukam. Trilogiia. Kniga pervaia: Sestry. Kniga vtoraia: Vosemnadtsatyi god. [Kniga tret´ia: Khmuroe utro.] M., [Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel´stvo Khudozhestvennoi literatury, [1957 - 1958.] 637 p., half - tone ill., plates; 413 p., half - tone ill., plates.	€275,00

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Small folio, original binding, dust jacket, end papers designed by Solomon Telingater and KUKRYNIKSY (?). TWO VOLUME SET. Printed on better PCF (?) paper. Dust jacket of vol. 1 has been carefully restored with minimum preservation work. Dust jacket of volume two was carefully restored also but ca 10 % of dust jacket missing, affecting part of the two color text and ca. 2% of the upper part half-tone picture. The book was designed in the style of late 'Soviet Baroque.' Probably the most representative edition of the style printed in post WW II years. Special fonts were made for this edition.Sewn. One of the most expensive illustrated fiction publications. FIRST EDITION IN THIS FORMAT. FIRST RUN. VERY RARE IN DUST JACKETS. Illustrations and plates by the Kukryniksy, three caricaturists/cartoonists in the USSR with a recognizable style. 'Kukryniksy' was a collective name derived from the combined names of three caricaturists (Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfirii Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov who had met at VKhUTEMAS, a Moscow art school, in the early 1920s. The three began drawing caricatures under the joint signature in 1924. They became nationally famous in the 1930s after the rise of fascism, drawing for Krokodil, the Moscow satirical paper. They received international recognition for their attacks on Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and Francisco Franco. During the second world war they established the TASS Windows for political cartoons and posters. They also illustrated a number of books, including Ilf and Petrov's. The Kukrynuksy are also authors of Socialist Realism-style paintings concerned with historical, political and propaganda topics. All three were awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR (1958). KUKRYNIKSY were also recipients of other awards.