[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich
Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]
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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Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers.
Read More Read MoreTCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
Read More Read MoreILIAZD [also ILYAZD, pseud. for Ilia ZDANEVICH]
Lidantiu faram [Le Dentu the Beacon]
Excellent example of this famous, innovative avant-garde work, in brilliant condition and inscribed by Iliazd to André Salmon.
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A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff.
Read More Read MoreMAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir and Aleksandr RODCHENKO (illustrator)
Moe otkrytie Ameriki [My Discovery of America]
Mayakovsky travelling to and photographed in the USA: first edition, in fine condition, with Rochenko's original wrappers.
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The poetess' beautiful portrait by a prominent member of the Russian and Jewish avant-garde; one of his most famous works, published just two years after its creation.
Read More Read MoreROZANOVA, Olga and Iosif SHKOLNIK (artists), David BURLIUK, Velimir KHLEBNIKOV and others
Soiuz molodezhi. 3 [Union of the Youth. Issue 3].
With 11 plates by Rozanova and Shkolnik: A pleasant example of the main issue of this great 'magazine', a famous publication of the first Russian avant-garde association.
Read More Read MoreLISSITZKY, El [Eliezer Lazar Markovich] (artist) and Peter Ben Zion RASKIN
Der Ber [The Bear]
A scarce Yiddish 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.
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Charming early Soviet ABC by a noted artist of natural history, in excellent condition and very rare: we could trace only one copy at auction (in Russia) and one in a public library (in Russia too).
Read More Read MoreESENIN, Sergei, with Boris PASTERNAK, Andrei BELII et al
Iav. Stikhi [Reality. Poems]
Exceptional association copy of these scandalous Russian imaginist poems, extensively inscribed by three co-authors – including Esenin - to a fourth one, Alexander Olenin. With Aristarkh Lentulov's striking cover bound in a very unusual cloth-and-wicker binding of the time. One of the best, if not the best example of this famous book of Russian poetry.
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