Lot 57
  • 57

Mayakovsky, Vladimir.

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Description

  • Tragediya v dvukh deistviyakh s prologom i epilogom [A Tragedy in Two Acts with a Prologue and an Epilogue]. Moscow: I. N. Gryisynov, 1914
8vo (178 x 132mm.), [limited to 500 copies], typographic text, 7 illustrations by David Burliuk and Vladimir Burliuk, original wrappers, some pages torn with marginal loss, spotting, rebound retaining original wrappers

Literature

Ex-Libris 187; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 65, 66

Catalogue Note

This unusually short play by Mayakovsky was inspired by an avant-garde production of Hamlet given in Moscow in 1911. Mayakovsky himself took the title-role in its first performance in St Petersburg in 1913.