Avant-Garde | PY Rare Books

Image for KRUCHENYKH. Stories and Drawings by Children, first edition in the original Russian, St. Petersburg, 1914. #2

Out of stock

Children's spontaneity and the Avant-Garde

Sobstvenniie razskazy i risunki detei [Actual Stories and Drawings by Children]

[Sankt Peterburg], EUY, 1914.

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.

Image for GONCHAROVA & RUBAKIN. Gorod. La Cité. Paris, 1920. First edition. #2

Out of stock

Goncharova's wide artistic spectrum

GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN

Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]

Parizh, [for the author], 1920.

An excellent example of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. First edition.

Image for V. BAKHCHANIAN. Zerkalo No.21. First edition, New York, 1975. #2

Out of stock

Americano-Soviet pop art

BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)

Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]

Niu Iork, 1975.

A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced.

Image for PEVZNER & SHVARTS. Skotnyi dvor. First edition, Moscow, 1931. #2

Out of stock

Another Animal Farm - jolly and colourful

PEVZNER, Teodor (artist) and Evgenii SHVARTS [Evgeny SHWARTZ]

Skotnyi dvor [The Farmyard]

Moskva, Molodaia gvardiia, 1931.

Celebrated Soviet children book with beautiful full-page images. First edition, in excellent condition.

Image for EPSTEIN & ROIKHEL. Mayselakh/Tales. First edition, Kyiv, 1922. #1

Out of stock

Yiddish Avant-Garde for children

EPSTEIN, Mark (artist) and David ROIKHEL

Mayselakh [Tales]

Kultur Lige, Kiev, 1922.

One of the great productions of the Russo-Jewish avant-garde group 'Kultur Liga', in its early Kyiv's days. Rare children book in Yiddish with many cubist illustrations.

Image for YERMILOV & POLISHCHUK. Ukrainian painting, first edition, Kharkiv, 1931. #2

Out of stock

Showing his painting, frescoes, drawings, sculptures, book covers...

YERMILOV, Vasyl (also Wassul JERMILOW) and Valerian POLISHCHUK

Ukrainskaia zhivopis. Ukrainske malyarstvo. Ukrainische Kunst Malerei. La peinture ucrainienne

Kharkiv, Rukh, 1931.

Great monograph of a leading avant-garde artist, written by his close friend, later executed by Stalin. First edition, very richly illustrated. Scarce.

Image for KAMENSKII, V. Kniga o Evreinove. First edition, Petrograd, 1917. #2

Out of stock

Avant-garde theatre in pre-revolutionary Russia

[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich

Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]

Sovremennoe Iskusstvo, Butkovskaia, Petrograd, 1917.

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.

Image for MAYAKOVSKY, V. Oblako v shtanakh. Moscow, 1918. #1

Out of stock

"Without censorship"

MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir

Oblako v shtanakh. Tetraptikh [A Cloud in Trousers. A Tetraptich.]

[ASIS, Moskva], 1918.

One of the great poems of Mayakovsky, here in its full version without cut-outs. A fine copy, in the original wrappers.

Image for SUZUKI, Y. Shin Roshia - New Russia. First edition, Tokyo, 1932-33. #2

Out of stock

The striking achievements of the young USSR seen from Japan

SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)

Shin Roshia [New Russia]

Tokyo, Nisso Bunka Kyokai, Showa 7-8 [i.e. 1932- 1933].

Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set.

Image for GLADKY, S. & A. SALMON. Synthese du costume theatral. First edition, Paris, 1927. #2

Out of stock

Cubist theatrical impressions

GLADKY, Serge (artist, also Serhii HLADKY) and André SALMON

Synthèse du costume théâtral

Ducros et Colas for Le Théâtre Mondial, Paris, 1927.

One of only 170 copies of this beautiful album of fresh and striking plates. In a fine modern binding.

Image for ALTMANN, Nathan. Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, Postcard. Petrograd, 1916. #2

Out of stock

Art and Poetry in a postcard

[AKHMATOVA] – ALTMANN, Nathan

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova

Golike & Vilborg, Petrograd, 1916.

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.

Image for Rozanova, Shkolnik, Burliuk and others, Soiuz Molodezhi Issue 3, 1913 #1

Out of stock

At the height of the Avant-Garde

ROZANOVA, Olga and Iosif SHKOLNIK (artists), David BURLIUK, Velimir KHLEBNIKOV and others

Soiuz molodezhi. 3 [Union of the Youth. Issue 3]

Peterburg, Usov, Mart 1913.

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.

Image for El Lissitzky, Der Ber children's book, Kiev, 1919 #1

Out of stock

One of his famous children books

LISSITZKY, El [Eliezer Lazar Markovich] (artist) and Peter Ben Zion RASKIN

Der Ber [The Bear]

<em>Yidisher Folks Ferlag (Kultur Lige), Kiev</em>, 1919.

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.

Image for [BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, A. and J. COCTEAU. L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst. First edition, 1913. #2

Out of stock

Beautiful copy in its striking binding

[BAKST] – ALEXANDRE, Arsène and Jean COCTEAU

L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst

De la More Press, Londres, for Maurice de Brunoff, Paris, 1913.

The earliest, largest and most impressive work on Bakst's striking art. A fine, fresh example, in its great art-déco binding.

Image for GRIGORIEV, B. Faces of Russia. Berlin, 1924. #1

Out of stock

In fine condition

GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich

Faces of Russia

Sinaburg, Berlin, for Great Britain and the Colonies, 1924.

A lovely, clean copy of this great book of artistic portraits of Russians. First English edition, copy num. 7.

Image for Mayakovsky discovers the USA: first edition, with Rochenko's original wrappers. #1

Out of stock

A Russian poet in the US

MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir [MAYAKOVSKY] and Aleksandr RODCHENKO (illustrator)

Moe otkrytie Ameriki [My Discovery of America]

Moskva-Leningrad, Gos. Izdat-vo, 1926.

Mayakovsky travelling to and photographed in the USA: first edition, in fine condition, with Rochenko's original wrappers.

Image for Vatagin, Alphabet in pictures, rare first edition, 1926 #1

Out of stock

Very rare ABC by an artist of the Moscow Darwin Museum

VATAGIN, Vasilii Alekseevich

Azbuka v kartinkakh [ABC in Pictures]

G.F. Mirimanov, Moskva, 1926.

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).

Login