Hardcover quarto size volume bound in blue cloth and housed in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 192 pages. Notes, Biographies of notable architects of the era, Index. Illustrated with 220 images, 40 in full color. First American edition, first printing. A lavishly illustrated review of the development of State architecture in Russia from the 1930’s into the 1950’s. No previous ownership marks. Retail price sticker from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on inside front dust-jacket flap. A clean, fresh, unmarked and collectible copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.