Severianin, Igor, David Burliuk, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksei Kruchenykh, and others.

4to (223 x 160mm.), [limited to 1000 copies], some leaves of cream paper, some of blue, others of brown, 20 illustrations by David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Pavel Filonov, Ivan Puni and Olga Rozanova, original pictorial wrappers by Puni, wrappers chipped at edges, lacking most of backstrip

Ex-Libris 82; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 92

Severianin and the Hylaea group angered the St Petersburg literary set as a result of the introduction to this work; “Idite k chortu [Go to hell]”, in which they grouped Symbolists, Ego-Futurists and Acmeists together. The work includes dogmatic poems by Mayakovsky and Severianin, poems of all styles from the Burliuks and Guro, while Kruchenykh provided some fine works including “Mudrost’ v silke [Wisdom in a snare]” exploring his interest in language. Filonov’s illustrations were accused of being pornographic and the work was confiscated by the Committee of the Press. It is thought that very few copies have survived.