[Movies]. Bryher. (Pseudonym of Winifred Ellerman). FILM PROBLEMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA.

Territet, Switzerland: Riant Chateau, 1929. First edition. 8vo. With 71 photographs of early Russian films taken by the experimental filmmaker of Pool Films renown, Kenneth MacPherson, who at the time was married to the author. Bryher’s unabashedly personal nine-page introduction constitutes a tutorial on the ways in which competing aesthetic and political considerations influenced the work of pioneering Russian movie directors like Eisenstein and Pudovkin. This copy is inscribed by the author: “Rita from Bryher in memory of the before the war years.” Fine in a very good, unrestored example of the pictorial dust jacket that shows the close-up filming of a Soviet tractor by MacPherson’s cameramen. Only one other jacketed copy appears online at this writing and it is uninscribed