"For live puppets"

KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich

Vtornik Meri. Predstavlenie v trekh chastiakh dlia kukol zhivykh ili dereviannykh

[Mary's Tuesday. A Spectacle in Three Parts for Live or Wooden Puppets]

Publication: Petrograd, Petropolis, 1921.

“For live puppets”
KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich. Vtornik Meri. Predstavlenie v trekh chastiakh dlia kukol zhivykh ili dereviannykh. [Mary’s Tuesday. A Spectacle in Three Parts for Live or Wooden Puppets]
Published/created in: 1921

£950

One of 100 numbered copies, in lovely condition: an attractive example of this diminutive edition.

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First edition of Kuzmin’s dramatic piece, one of 100 numbered copies only, this one numbered 69, out of a total printrun of 1,000. With a refined, elaborate cover design by Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, a member of the celebrated Mir Iskusstva group.

A lovely example, without restoration, of this small, fragile production.

Provenance

Robert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted collector of Russian, British and American literature works).

Bibliography

Kilgour 609; Lesman 1220; Rozanov 3132; Turchinskii 281.

Item number

1320

 

Physical Description

Duodecimo (13 x 9 cm). 38 pp. incl. leaf with publisher’s mark, title and half-title, last leaf blank.

Binding

Original publisher’s illustrated wrappers after a design by Dobuzhinskii.

Condition

Light wear and minor closed tears at extremities, very light soiling; an appealing example.

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