Sobstvenniie razskazy i risunki detei. [Actual Stories and Drawings by Children]
Published/created in: 1914
£2,350
Pleasant example of this curious work, gathering children's texts and drawings within the frame of the buoyant Russian avant-garde. A delicate production, fragile, here is fresh internal condition. First edition.
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LARIONOV, M[ikhail], Nataliia GONCHAROVA, Ilia ZDANEVICH, [Pablo] PICASSO and others
Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill]
Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill].
Published/created in: 1923
£1,950
Lovely gathering of three 'ephemera' items produced for the first Russian ball of the avant-garde in Paris - an eclectic show with music and dances in newly designed costumes. With Larionov's ticket, Goncharova's handbill and the famous programme with many artistic contributions.
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GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité. [The City. Poems]
Published/created in: 1920
£12,500
An excellent example from the 25 copies on china paper ('tirage de tête'), in a binding by one of the best French binders. First edition of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova.
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BURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author)
Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy" [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy". [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
Published/created in: 1914
£2,950
First edition of this collection of futurist poetry, inscribed by Burliuk to "the best customer" Lev Grinkrug. A lovely book, finely illustrated with plates by Burliuk and two famous Russian avant-garde female artists: Exter and Vasilieva.
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CHERNYI, Sasha (pseud. for Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG) and Boris GRIGORIEV (artist)
Detskii ostrov [The Children's Island]
Detskii ostrov. [The Children's Island]
Published/created in: 1921
£1,950
Grigoriev's famous children book, in the original publisher's binding; a very good example.
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SHKLOVSKII, Viktor and El LISITSKII [LISSITZKY] (artist)
Zoo. Pisma ne o liubvi ili tretia Eloiza [Zoo. Letters Not About Love or the Third Eloise]
Zoo. Pisma ne o liubvi ili tretia Eloiza. [Zoo. Letters Not About Love or the Third Eloise]
Published/created in: 1923
£600
Cover design by El Lissitzky for this depiction of the Russian emigration in Berlin in the Golden Twenties.
The preferred first edition, rarer than the Russian one published shortly afterwards.
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[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich
Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]
Kniga o Evreinove. [A Book About Evreinov]
Published/created in: 1917
£250
Avant-garde theatre - including Wilde and Beardsley - through the eyes of an avant-garde poet, artist and aviator. Published the year of the Revolution, by an important theatre woman.
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S. Chekhonin. A Master of the Soviet Empire Style [and] On the Art of Chekhonin.
Published/created in: 1923
£1,450
Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers.
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POUCHKINE, Alexandre and Vasily CHOUKHAEFF (artist) [PUSHKIN and SHUKHAEV]
Boris Godounov
Boris Godounov.
Published/created in: 1925
£5,250
One of the great artists' books of the Russian Paris school - here in the deluxe version on Japon Impérial: one of 18 copies only.
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TCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
Dos Kelbl. [The Calf]
Published/created in: 1919
£3,950
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
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Lenin. Risunki Natana Altmana. [Lenin. Sketches by Natan Altman]
Published/created in: 1921
£1,250
A pleasant example of this work, with its famous avant-garde cover design by Altman.
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L'Ymaigier Jean Lebedeff.
Published/created in: 1939
£1,750
A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff.
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GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité. [The City. Poems]
Published/created in: 1920
£5,950
An excellent example of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. First edition.
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BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)
Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]
Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala. [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]
Published/created in: 1975
£2,500
A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced.
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PEVZNER, Teodor (artist) and Evgenii SHVARTS [Evgeny SHWARTZ]
Skotnyi dvor [The Farmyard]
Skotnyi dvor. [The Farmyard]
Published/created in: 1931
£1,250
Celebrated Soviet children book with beautiful full-page images. First edition, in excellent condition.
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MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir [MAYAKOVSKY] and David BURLIUK (artist)
Otkrytie Ameriki [Discovery of America]
Otkrytie Ameriki. [Discovery of America]
Published/created in: [1925]
£1,850
Rare first edition of Mayakovsky's poem, illustrated by Burliuk, here in a fine, pleasant copy.
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