Martin Lücke - Stalinstadt (WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1958

VERY SCARCE EAST GERMAN (GDR/DDR) PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK -
with the EXTREM SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET, designed by Helmut Seyfart.

Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, "Deutschland im Fotobuch", page 388/389.

COMPLETE - with the separate stapled 24 pages text booklet at the end of the book.

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"The city was built for the newly established Ost ironworks combine, named after Stalin in 1953, and given the new name Eisenhüttenstadt in 1961 as part of the de-Stalinization process.
Stalinstadt is a model and example for our socialist construction.
Today, as new cities and works of socialism are emerging in many places in our republic, and to an even greater extent than happened on the Oder, it is worth looking to Stalinstadt, a city where the
future has already become reality.
The representative illustrated book was intended to convey pride and identity. Under the motto 'New Life, New People', the book presents the existing locations, the construction of the steelworks, and the new city.
The explanatory texts, intended for an international audience, are translated into Russian, English, and French and can be found in a separate supplement."
(Thomas Wiegand in 'Deutschland im Fotobuch')

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Kongress-Verlag, Berlin. 1958. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover in linen with dustjacket. 230 x 298 mm. 168 pages plus 24 pages booklet with translated texts. 206 photos (196 in black and white, 8 color). Photos: Martin Lücke (197) and others (8). Text: Heinz Colditz. Layout cloth: Helmut Seyfart. Text in Russian, English and French (booklet). Text in German (book).

Condition:
Book inside excellent, very fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside (protected by the jacket) very fresh with no remarkable defects; a few small yellow stains (nearly impossible to see), no other flaws. Dustjacket quite fresh and impressive and almost complete; some trace of use at the edges, one tiny missing part at the bottom of the front, some small tears (acid-free) taped from behind. Text booklet fresh and flawless. Overall fine, much better than usual condition.

Very scarce East German photobook with the extrem scarce original dustjacket -
hard to find in any condition.