Lot 19
  • 19

Kruchenykh, Aleksei.

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Description

  • Stikhi Mayakovskago [Poetry of Mayakovsky]. St Petersburg: EUY, 1914
8vo (205 x 150mm.), [limited to 1000 copies], lithograph by Olga Rozanova tipped-in as frontispiece, original printed pictorial wrappers by D. Burliuk, backstrip repaired, corners chipped

Literature

Hellyer 247; Ex-Libris 127; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 70

Catalogue Note

first edition. This important book was the first to be published on the writings of Mayakovsky who had recently become highly acclaimed. Kruchenykh places Mayakovsky in context as an urban poet and Rozanova’s lithographic view of a Futurist city scene complements this. The image on the upper cover is a complex portrait of Mayakovsky.