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(RUSSIAN FUTURISM.) Kruchenykh, Aleksei.
Liki Esenina ot kheruvema
do khuligana [The Faces of Esenin from Cherub to Hooligan].
8vo, original deco-
rated wrappers designed by Valentina Kulagina-Klutsis, wrappers tanned and brittle as
usual, front wrapper detached, some scattered stains, occasional chipping to edges; fragile.
Moscow: [published by the author], 1926
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
,
ONE OF
5000
UNNUMBERED COPIES
.
One of six works by Kruchenykh
about Sergei Esenin, the popular poet of the Revolution, notorious for his excesses and extrava-
gant life. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 647.
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(RUSSIAN FUTURISM.) Kruchenykh, Aleksei.
Sdvigologiya. Russkogo
stikha [Logic Displacement. Russian Verse].
With 3 linocuts (including title page) by
Ivan Kliun. 8vo, original wrappers printed in red and black, fragile, backstrip chipped with
some loss, covers partially detached, a few rubberstamps, one on rear cover. O
NE OF
2000
UNNUMBERED COPIES
. Number 2 in the Moscow Association of Futurists critical theory
series. Hellyer 243; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 392-393.
Moscow: MAF, 1923
[700/1,000]
250
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(RUSSIAN LITERATURE.) Pasternak, Boris.
Spektorskii.
12mo, original
cloth-backed boards, printed cover label (with small scratch above lettering), extremities
slightly rubbed; endpapers renewed.
FIRST EDITION
. Pasternak’s “novel in verse” that origi-
nally appeared in various periodicals, and his only novel apart from Doctor Zhivago.
Moscow: GIHL, 1931
[350/500]
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SALINGER, J.D.
The Catcher
in the Rye.
8vo, original black cloth,
gilt-lettered spine, scattered shallow sur-
face abrasions; dust jacket, price clipped,
few areas of restoration on verso mostly
along upper edges, mild age-toning; slight
foxing to front and end matter.
FIRST EDI
-
TION IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET
with
portrait photograph of Salinger by Lotte
Jacobi on rear panel of jacket.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
[2,000/3,000]
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