Solomon TELINGATER

O Lenine. O komsomole. [On Lenin. On the Komsomol].  7 volumes.  8vo., 190 x 130 mm, each volume bound in publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers, preserved in publisher's red slip case with photograph of Lenin, designed by Telingater.  Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932. A classic example of telingater's genius as a book designer. This particular work was banned and withdrawn from circulation after Pavel Postyshev, the author of part 5 was jailed, as an enemy of the USSR, and subsequently. The complete set in it's original box isextremely rare, with OCLC lisiting only NYPL and Univ. of Chicago in the US. The set is made up as follows: Lenin, V. Zadachi soiuzov molodezhi [i.e. Tasks of Youth Unions]. 32 pp.: ill. Stalin, I. O Lenine [i.e. On Lenin]. 32 pp. Stalin, I. O komsomole [i.e. On the Komsomol]. 64 pp. Kaganovich, L. Mezhdunarodnoe i vnutrennee polozhenie i zadachi komsomola [i.e. International and internal situation and tasks of the Komsomol]. 108 pp. Postyshev, P. Za b