Lot 48
  • 48

Kruchenykh, Aleksei.

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Description

  • Starinnaya liubov' [Old-time love]. Moscow: G. Kuzmin and S. Dolinski, 1912
8vo (140 x 95mm.), [limited edition of 300 copies], lithographed throughout, illustrations and cover design by Mikhail Larionov, new backstrip

Literature

Hellyer 246; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 9

Catalogue Note

One of three books produced in a similar primitivist style by Kruchenykh during 1912 whose hand-made look, deliberate mis-spellings and deployment of unconventional punctuation baffled the literary cognoscenti.