Shklovsky, Victor. Hamburg account. The first edition of his lifetime.

Shklovsky, Victor. Hamburg account. The first edition of his lifetime.
Leningrad. Publishing house of Writers in Leningrad, 1928. - 247, [7] p. Publisher's cover, dust jacket, reduced format (14 x 19.5 cm). The dust jacket is separated from the block; the binding is worn; rare temporary spots.

Cover art by M. A. Kirnarsky;

Technical design of the book was carried out by M. A. Kirnarsky and Grieg. Sorokins.

[Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (1893-1984) - writer, literary critic, film critic and screenwriter.

Shklovsky's famous book "the Hamburg account" was published in 1928, and since then its name has become popular. The book is a collection of essays in which the author reflected on which of the writers will remain in the history of literature: "A few words about Vyachepolonsky", "the Painted exhibit", "Magazine as a literary form", "Something like a Declaration", "5 feuilletons about Eisenstein", "about the cinema language", "What is "Khmara", "Adjaristan", etc.

Mark Abramovich kirnarsky (1893-1941) - graphic artist.

He designed and illustrated books for the writers ' publishing House in Leningrad, Gosizdat, and Vremya publishing house. Kirnarsky was a master of the cover, in the design of which he preferred the plane-decorative principle with a symmetrical composition and various kinds of frames in the spirit of the neoclassical traditions of the artists of the "World of art".]