20th century: Avant-Garde
CHAGALL, Marc (artist) and Der NISTER [pseud. for Pinchus KAHANOVICH].
A Mayse mit a Hon; Dos Tsigele [A Story About a Rooster [and] The Little Kid].
The birth of a rich book-illustrating career: Chagall's first book, showing 9 full-page illustrations, and the only children's book to be illustrated by the great modern artist.
Read More![ILYAZD [pseud. for Ilya ZDANEVICH]. Lidantiu faram [Le Dentu the Beacon]. 1923](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/770-327x400.jpg)
SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS 'MASTERPIECE OF THE RUSSIAN POETIC AVANT-GARDE' (Johnson 25) INSCRIBED BY ILIAZD TO ANDRE SALMON, a talented man of letters, poet and leading art critic.
Read More
20th century: Avant-Garde
Zaumnyi iazyk u: Seifullinoi Vs Ivanova Leonova Babelia I Selvinskogo A Veselogo i dr. Kniga 127-ia. [The Transrational Language of: Seifullina, Vs. Ivanov, Leonov, Babel, I. Selvinskii, A. Veselyi, and others. Book 127.]
The first edition; with covers designed by Kulagina-Klutsis. This collection of essays on experimental language by one of its most prominent practitioners closes with an exhaustive bibliography of Kruchenykh's works to date.
Read More
20th century: Avant-Garde
Lenin. Risunki Natana Altmana [Lenin. Sketches by Natan Altman].
In 1920, Altman was invited to the Kremlin to create a bronze portrait of Vladimir Lenin. To complete this task, he spent about six weeks with the Bolsheviks' leader The best sketches in preparation of the bronze bust eventually formed this booklet.
Read More
20th century: Avant-Garde
ESENIN, Sergei, with Boris PASTERNAK, Andrei BELII et al.
Iav'. Stikhi [Reality. Poems].
Exceptional association copy of this scandalous book of imagist poems, extensively inscribed by three co-authors including Esenin - to a fourth one, Alexander Olenin (1865-1944).
Read More
Charming early Soviet ABC, in excellent condition and very rare: we could find a copy in the Russian State Library (Moscow) but in no other library. Not traced in WorldCat.
Read More
20th century: Avant-Garde
LISSITZKY, El [Eliezer Lazar Markovich] (artist) and Peter Ben Zion RASKIN.
Der Ber [The Bear] from the "Kinder-Garten" Series of Children's Books. Yiddish text by Uncle Ben Zion Raskin (1880-1930).
A scarce children's book by a major figure of the Russian and Jewish avant-garde: an early Kiev production of the important Kultur Lige, illustrated on every page by Lissitzky.
Read More