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A RUSSIAN SOVIET BOOK BY ERENBURG DESIGNED LEGER - A Russian Soviet book by Ilya Ehrenburg, 1891-1967, and Fernand Léger, 1881-1956. Title: A vse-taki ona vertitsya, And All the Same the World Goes Round. Printed in Moscow and Berlin, Sinaburg and Co for Gelikon, 1922, 142 pp. Illustrated with photogravures and line illustrations by Fernand Léger and others. Original decorated wrappers designed by F. Léger. Rare treatise on contemporary avant-garde art. Among the artists the Russian critic considers are Léger, Lipchitz, Lissitzky, Picasso, Rodchencko, Van Doesburg and even Charlie Chaplin with Cubist drawings by Léger. The book is also noteworthy for its typographical experimentation. Dimensions: 9 x 6 1/2 in.