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[FUTURISM BEYOND MANIFESTOS] Trebnik troikh : Sbornik stikhov i risunkov [i.e. Missal of the Three : A Collection of Poems and Drawings]

Item #1682

Moscow: Izd. G.L. Kuz’mina i S.D. Dolinskogo, 1913. 86, [2] pp., 15 ills. 21x17,5 cm. In original wrappers with title mounted. Tears of spine with small fragments lost, spine faded with pale water stain, small tears of covers, narrow water stains on outer margin, foxing on front cover. Otherwise very good internally.
First and only edition. One of 1100 copies. Rare.
Heading to the “typographical revolution», the Hylea group didn’t refuse to use illustrations. They were influenced by lithographed books of Kruchenykh and began to add lithographs to publications, beginning with ‘Trebnik troikh’. The collection reproduces 2 works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1 work by Nadezhda Burliuk, 3 works by Vladimir Tatlin, 2 works by Vladimir Burliuk and 7 works by David Burliuk.
The edition came out in March 1913. There are obviously more contributors of verses than “the three”. Looking for a solution, brothers David Burliuk and Nikolai Burliuk united into someone “D.N. Burliuk” in a publisher’s advertising list on the last page, thus it still announces three names.
The collection opens with a selection of Velemir Khlebnikov’s word-creative experiments, preceded by two of his portraits. The first one is drawn by Mayakovsky and is regarded as one of the best in the iconography of Khlebnikov. The author of the second portrait (silhouette) is Nadezhda Burliuk. According to a legend, she traced the shadow of the poet’s profile on a sheet of paper. A section of Mayakovsky’ poetry contains two portraits of the author created by Vladimir Burliuk and David Burliuk, as well as two illustrations produced by Mayakovsky himself and Tatlin. Some of Mayakovsky’s poems were later published in a modified form.
The edition is topped off with four nude women’s images in a primitivist manner created by David Burliuk.
Paper copies are located in Princeton, Harvard, Michigan Universities, Art Institute of Chicago.

Price: $5,500.00