Eyes on Russia.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931. 4to.; photographically illustrated throughout in sepia; beige boards; pictorial dust-jacket. In custom red cloth slipcase and box.

$6500

First edition. Inscribed on first free endpaper: For Felix Feist who has given me an idea. Sincerely, Margaret Bourke-White. A prominent association, with an allusion to a potential collaborative relationship between photojournalist forerunner Margaret Bourke-White and film and television director Felix Feist. Inscribed at the height of Bourke-White’s career. Feist is best remembered today for Deluge (1933), for writing and directing the film noirs The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) and The Threat (1949. Bourke-White is a woman of many firsts: the first photographer for Fortune magazine, in 1929, the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union in 1931, the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, soon after its creation in 1935, the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II, and one of the first photographers to enter and document the concentration camps.