![Item #842 [LISSITZKY] Vladimir Mayakovsky: (“Misteriia” ili “Buff”) [i.e. Vladimir...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/842.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569969208)
Berlin: Skify, 1922. 56 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with letterpress design. Restored spine, copy faded, otherwise very good. First separate edition. A stunning letterpress design on the front cover was created by El Lissitzky in Berlin period. The crossword motif appeared on several book..... More
![Item #2407 [ONE OF MANDELSTAM’S LAST LIFETIME BOOKS] O poezii: sbornik statey [i.e. On Poetry:...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2407.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745854883)
Leningrad: Academia, 1928. 97, [1] pp. Original publisher’s wrappers. Near fine. Spine is slightly rubbed. Scarce. 1 of 2,100 copies. Text in Russian. One of Osip Mandelstam’s final lifetime editions and a rare collection of his essays, released shortly before his name was banned from Soviet print for..... More
![Item #264 [MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?]. V. V...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/264.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1491999446)
Moscow: Ogoniok, 1927. 54, [2] pp. 15x11,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, wrappers slightly rubbed several stains and owner’s pencil marks in text. Scarce. One of 14500 copies. First edition of the most elaborate piece of Mayakovsky’s literary criticism (he’s done only few other critical works and..... More
![Item #1598 [EAST VS WEST] Vostok v khudozhestvennoi literature [i.e. The East in Fiction...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1598.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673278974)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1928. 203, [2] pp. 23x15,5 cm. In original decorated wrappers. Small tears of spine, soiling of covers and some page corners, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Simple yet notable cover and title page designs were created with math symbols..... More
![Item #1140 [CHUKOVSKY AGAINST FUTURISTS] Futuristy [i.e. Futurists]. K. Chukovsky](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1140.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608120255)
St. Petersburg: Polyarnaya zvezda, 1922. 84 pp. 19.5×13 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Small tears, losses and light foxing of the wrappers, otherwise very good. The highest point of the polemics between Korney Chukovsky and Russian Futurists. Ever since futurism in Russia took on a large scale in..... More
![Item #163 [SHAKESPEAREAN STUDY IN RUSSIAN] Shekspir, kritisheskoye issledovaniye ego mysli i ego...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/163.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1475159336)
St. Petersburg: Slavyanskaya pechatnya, 1880. [4], XVI, 449, II pp. In quarter leather contemporary binding. Rubbed binding, tears and small losses of the spine, cracks between both pastedown and text block (book is not loose). First Russian translation. The first original edition was published in 1875 in London. It..... More