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Ego-Futurists--A collection

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  • of 11 works published by Peterburgskii Glashatai [Petersburg Herald], comprising:
Ignat'ev, I.V., editor. Oranzhevaya urna. Almanakh' pamyati' Fofanova [The Orange Urn. Miscellany in memory of Fofanov]. 1912
Ibid. Zasakhare Kry. Ego-futuristy V. 1913, 2 copies, upper wrapper illustrated by Lev Zak, one with bookplate of K.A. Shimkovich, covers of both copies lightly spotted
Ibid. Razvorochenyye Cherepa. Ego-futuristy IX [Smashed Skulls. Ego-futurists IX]. 1913, illustration by I.E. Repin of Olimpov reading his poetry on upper wrapper, portion of lower wrapper torn away 
Ibid.
Ego-futuristy. Bei!.. [Ego-futurists. Strike!]. 1913, bookplate of K.A. Shimkevich
Ibid. Ego-futuristy. Vsegdai [The Alwayser] VII. 1913, wrappers detached and frayed
Kryuchkov, D. Padun Nemolchnyi [The Incessant Faller]. 1913
Shershenevich, V. Romanticheskaya pudra [Romantic face-powder. Poems. Opus 8]. 1913
Ignat'ev, I.V. Nebokopy [Skydiggers]. 1913, photographic illustration on upper wrapper, bookplate of K.A. Shimkevich 
Ibid.
Eshafot'. Ego-futury [The Scaffold. Ego-futurists]. 1914, signature of Grigorii Vinokur, 1916, on first page
Olimpov, Konstantin. Zhonglery-Nervy [Jugglers-Nerves]. [No date], with an autograph note on a loose slip of paper by K. Fofanov-Olimpov, dated 25 August 1921, saying that the poem "A Cigarette, and another, and another cigarette..." is by his father K.M. Fofanov and is published in Istoricheskii Vestnik, small tear in upper wrapper



together 11 volumes, 8vo, original printed wrappers, various colours, all illustrated with the device of the Peterburgskii Glashatai, some wrappers lightly soiled

Catalogue Note

The Ego-futurist movement was founded in St Petersburg in 1911 by the poets Igor Severyanin and Konstantin Olimpov. Vadim Shershenevich formed the Mezzanine of Poetry, a Moscow-based group of ego-futurists. The ego-futurist programme sought to experiment with new words and rhymes to create an "irrational poetry", to understand the "unclarity of the earth". Igor Ignatiev was an ego-futurist who established in 1912 a new newspaper (Peterburgskii Glashatai), and from 1912 until 1914 a publishing-house with the same name. He published both individual collections of poems, as well as a series of short miscellanies, almanakhi, with works by writers such as Bobrov, Gnedov, Ivnev, Kryuchkov, Olimpov and Svetlanov.