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(RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM.)
Rodchenko, Alexander and Mayakovsky,
Vladimir.
Stikhi o revoliutsii. [Poems
about the Revolution.]
Small 8vo, orig-
inal Constructivist wrappers designed by
Rodchenko and printed in red, minor fin-
ger soiling, small chip to one corner,
backstrip extremities rubbed, faded rub-
berstamps and pencil marks on rear cover.
Moscow: “Krasnaya Nov,” 1923
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
ONE OF
3000
UNNUM
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BERED COPIES
of this selection of nineteen
satirical poems about early Soviet life. Not in
MoMA.
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(RUSSIAN FUTURISM.)
Kruchenykh, Aleksei.
Faktura slova
[Verbal Texture].
Title vignette, end-
piece and cover design by Ivan Kliun. 8vo,
original wrappers printed in purple and
black, tidemark along backstrip and upper
margins of covers; a few leaves with some
dampstaining, unobtrusive manuscript
paginations in bottom corners of odd-
numbered pages.
Moscow: MAF [Moscow Association of
Futurists], 1923
[800/1,200]
ONE OF
2000
UNNUMBERED COPIES
.
The
first volume in a series of critical works on
expansionist possibilities for Russian verse by
its most radical and experimental pratictioner.
Hellyer 218; The Russian Avant-Garde Book
461.
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(RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM.) Khodasevich, V.M. (illus.) and Gide, Andre.
The Immoralist.
Frontispiece and cover label by Valentina Mikhailovna Khodasevich.
Small 8vo, original grey boards, cocked, covers rubbed with scattered soiling and creasing,
backstrip abraded with some loss of letters; pages 123-134 with uniform 2 inch horizontal
tear.
RARE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF THE CLASSIC FRENCH NOVEL
.
Leningrad: “Academia,” 1927
[400/600]
