![MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924](/pictures/thumb/508.jpg?v=1533145411)
Moscow: Krasnyi mayak, 1924. 8 pp.: ill. 65x54 cm. Very good. A very fragile newspaper with tears of the extremities and spine, ink stamp of the non-existing library (Lenin’s institute). An extremely rare survival of the time. Page 8 with advertisements including an illustrated ad for ABC with poem... More about MAYAKOVSKY’S WORK FOR ADVERTISING] Izvestiya. #175 (August 2nd, 1924
![UNKNOWN MAYAKOVSKY CARRICATURE] Za 7 dnei [i.e. During 7 Days](/pictures/thumb/507.jpg?v=1533145066)
Moscow: Rabochaia Moskva, 1926. #6, 10, 12 for 1926. 33x23,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and back cover repaired with the adhesive tape (#6), tears of the edges, otherwise very good and clean internally. Extremely rare survival. Three issues of short-lived satire supplement to the newspaper ‘Working Moscow’... More about UNKNOWN MAYAKOVSKY CARRICATURE] Za 7 dnei [i.e. During 7 Days
![BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun....](/pictures/thumb/102.jpg?v=1528812957)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is... More about BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like the Sun....
![FIRST BOOK BY ALEXANDER BLOK] Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame [i.e. Verses About the Beautiful Lady]....](/images/noimage.png)
Moscow: Grif, 1905. 135, [9] pp. 20x16 cm. Contemporary half leather. The publisher’s original wrapper is preserved under the boards. Very good clean copy. Rare. 1 of 1200 copies printed. One of the most important Russian poetry books of the period. First edition of Alexander Blok’s (1880-1921) first book... More about FIRST BOOK BY ALEXANDER BLOK] Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame [i.e. Verses About the Beautiful Lady
![SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and...](/pictures/thumb/499.jpg?v=1533142331)
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the... More about SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and...
![FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of...](/pictures/thumb/122.jpg?v=1472299990)
Moscow: 1930. 19 pp., ill. 21,5х18 сm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, two small closed tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. One of 250 copies. Very rare. Published by the author. Cover design by I. Kliun. Illustrations by I. Terentyev. This is one of the last... More about FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of...
![RODCHENKO AND MAYAKOVSKY] Sifilis [i.e. Syphilis]. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/84.jpg?v=1450188896)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 15 pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on the inner side of the front cover, light soiling, bookshop stamp on the rear cover, otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. Cover design and photomontage by A. Rodchenko. With a few full-page photomontages by Rodchenko. More about RODCHENKO AND MAYAKOVSKY] Sifilis [i.e. Syphilis
![MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?]. V. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/264.jpg?v=1491999447)
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 about MAYAKOVSKY AS LITERARY CRITIC] Kak delat’ stikhi? [i. e. How are Verses Made?
![MAYAKOVSKY IN FRENCH] Mayakovsky po frantsuzski: 4 poemy / Perevod Andreia Gippiusa [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/275.jpg?v=1494858928)
Moscow: Published by the translator, 1930. [2], 46 leaves. 23x19 cm. Original front cover is preserved, spine and rear cover of modern paper. Some light restoration to the front cover, lacking staples so leaves are not bound, some soiling, previous owner’s pencil drawing on the last page and corrections in... More about MAYAKOVSKY IN FRENCH] Mayakovsky po frantsuzski: 4 poemy / Perevod Andreia Gippiusa [i.e....
![MAYKOVSKY ON LENIN] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. V. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/511.jpg?v=1533147596)
Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925. 94, [1] pp. 17,2x13 cm. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design on the front wrapper (and in a later full cloth case with lettering in Swedish). Very good, loss of the small fragment of the margin of the back wrapper, spine is rebacked with paper, owner’s... More about MAYKOVSKY ON LENIN] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 14 pp., 1 ill. 17x13 cm. Original wrappers with constructivist photomontage. Wrappers slightly rubbed, faded bookshop’s stamp and pen marks on the back cover, spine is rubbed with a small tear at the bottom and rusty staple. Otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy. First... More about RODCHENKO’S PHOTOMONTAGES] Razgovor s fininspektorom o poezii / Oblozhka i montazh A. Rodchenko...
![SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets]. W. Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/713.jpg?v=1562883060)
[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More about SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets
![Posle Rossii [i.e. After Russia. 1922-1925]. Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva](/pictures/thumb/691.png?v=1559609657)
Paris: I.E. Povolotzky, 1928. 160 pp. 18,8x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. The spine is restored. Wrapper is slightly soiled. Rare. One of 500 copies produced. The first edition of Tsvetaeva’s last book of poems, including the poems written after she emmigrated to France from Soviet Russia. Tsvetaeva wanted... More about Posle Rossii [i.e. After Russia. 1922-1925
Moscow: Scorpion, 1911. [4], 216, [10] pp. 8vo. A fine copy. The contemporary owner's cloth binding with lettering piece glued to the spine. Original printed front wrapper preserved. A bookseller's mark on the free endpaper. The most complete pre-revolutionary edition of Walt Whitman's work in Russian. The earliest... More about WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS IN RUSSIAN] Pobegi travy / Perevod s angliiskogo K.D. Balmonta [i.e....
![EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The Poetic Beauties...](/pictures/thumb/134.jpg?v=1472322029)
Moscow: Kryazhev and May, 1806. [4], 362, [13] p., 1 frontispiece. 17,7x11,4 cm. Contemporary full leather. Title of the book gilt on the spine. Tiny hole in the title page, some stains but overall very good condition. Owner’s inscription ‘Shilovoy Tatiany’ on the endpapers done in the first quarter of... More about EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The Poetic Beauties...
![AMERICAN POETRY IN RUSSIAN] Iz amerikanskikh poetov [i.e. From American Poets]. M. A. Zenkevich](/pictures/thumb/150.jpg?v=1475066124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1946. 136 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. Tiny tears of the spine. Most of the poems are translated into Russian for the first time. Translations of American poets: Philip Freneau, William Bryant, Ralph Emerson, Henry Longfellow, John Whittier, James Riley, Walt Whitman... More about AMERICAN POETRY IN RUSSIAN] Iz amerikanskikh poetov [i.e. From American Poets
![MAYAKOVSKY INTRODUCES A NEW ART FORM] Teatral’naia prodagitatsia. Vypusk 1 [i.e. Theatrical...](/pictures/thumb/298.jpg?v=1502281389)
[Moscow]: Gosizdat, 1920. 38, [2] pp.: ill. 26,5х17,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, loss of the staple, small tears and losses of the wrappers and extremities of a few pages, horizontal crease, wrappers is rubbed and soiled. Otherwise a good copy. First and... More about MAYAKOVSKY INTRODUCES A NEW ART FORM] Teatral’naia prodagitatsia. Vypusk 1 [i.e. Theatrical...
![ONE OF THE RAREST RUSSIAN MIMEOGRAPH BOOKS] Novyi Giperborei. Zhurnal Tsekha poetov. #1 [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/211.jpg?v=1483924390)
Petrograd: 1921. 20 pp., ill. 27,5х22 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Fine. One of 23 copies. Extremely rare, especially in such mint condition. This magazine (de facto almanac) was printed using mimeograph because after the revolution there was a great deficit of materials and publishers (a lot of handwritten... More about ONE OF THE RAREST RUSSIAN MIMEOGRAPH BOOKS] Novyi Giperborei. Zhurnal Tsekha poetov. #1 [i.e. The...
![SIGNED BY DAVID BURLIUK] 1/2 veka. (Izdano k pyatidesyatiletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya poeta)....](/pictures/thumb/164.jpg?v=1475159395)
New York: Izd. Marii N. Burlyuk, 1932. 18 pp., 1 port. 31х24 cm. In original printed wrappers. Chinese red stamp and private library (Burliuk Gallery) stamp on p.3, Burliuk Gallery's stamp on the front cover. New tissue paper before the portrait. Signed by David and his wife Maria on... More about SIGNED BY DAVID BURLIUK] 1/2 veka. (Izdano k pyatidesyatiletiyu so dnya rozhdeniya poeta)....
![Moskva–Petushki [i.e. Moscow to the End of the Line]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/186.jpg?v=1528813657)
Moscow: Self-published, 1981. [3], 67 leaves. 30x20,5 cm. Light green card binding. Original carbon copy typescript; first 52 leaves printed on translucent onion paper with thicker white paper interpolated for ease of reading. A few corrections in ink. Very good. Traces of moisture to card boards and parts of the... More about Moskva–Petushki [i.e. Moscow to the End of the Line
![KHLEBNIKOV, ZDANEVICH & KRUCHYONYKH] Zverinets [i.s. At the Zoo (Menagerie)]. Velimir Khlebnikov](/pictures/thumb/123.jpg?v=1472299747)
Moscow: Gruppa druzei Khlebnikova, 1930. 17 pp. 21,2x17,8 cm. Lithographed edition made within the series Neizdannyi Khlebnikov (i.e. The Unpublished Khlebnikov). In original wrappers with pictorial and typographical lithograph design by Kirill Zdanevich. Edited by Aleksei Kruchyonykh. Introduction by Yurii Olesha. Slight restoration to the bottom of the spine. Overall... More about KHLEBNIKOV, ZDANEVICH & KRUCHYONYKH] Zverinets [i.s. At the Zoo (Menagerie
![DESIGN BY TELINGATER] Slovo predostavlyaetsya Kirsanovu [i.e. The word belongs to Kirsanov]. S....](/pictures/thumb/129.jpg?v=1472313452)
Moscow: GIZ, 1930. [84] pp. 20,5х9 cm. Original wrappers with letterpress lettering and photomontage illustrations. A very good copy. Some restoration of the covers. One of 3000 copies. An exceptional example of innovative constructivist typographic design by Telingater that intended to enhance the work of the leftist poet Semyon... More about DESIGN BY TELINGATER] Slovo predostavlyaetsya Kirsanovu [i.e. The word belongs to Kirsanov
![PHOTOMONTAGE COVER DESIGN BY RODCHENKO] Chelovek na kryshe: Vtoraya kniga stikhov [i.e. Man on...](/pictures/thumb/119.jpg?v=1472130561)
Tiflis: Izd-vo ob-va «Zakkniga», 1928. 91 pp. 21x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page (in poetic form). First and only edition. Scarce. One of 3000 copies. Photomontage design of the cover by Alexander Rodchenko (defined by reference). Georgy Vladimirovich Kreitan... More about PHOTOMONTAGE COVER DESIGN BY RODCHENKO] Chelovek na kryshe: Vtoraya kniga stikhov [i.e. Man on...
![CZECH CONSTRUCTIVIST MAYAKOVSKY, SIGNED] 150,000.000. V. Mayakovsky](/pictures/thumb/565.jpg?v=1547727985)
Praha: Melantrich, 1945. 104 pp.: ill. 31x22 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Few pages detached, slightly rubbed. Second edition of the first Czech translation. Copy signed by translator. Constructivist cover design and 9 original lithographies were made by avant-garde artist Václav Mašek (1893-1973). The Czech version of this epic... More about CZECH CONSTRUCTIVIST MAYAKOVSKY, SIGNED] 150,000.000
![VARVARA STEPANOVA & MAYAKOVSKY’S COLLABORATION] Groznyi smekh. Okna Rosta [i.e. Menacing...](/pictures/thumb/483.jpg?v=1531141489)
Moscow: GIKhL, 1932. [1], 79 pp.: ill. 25х22 сm. In original constructivist cardboards and dust jacket, both with red and black lettering. Slightly rubbed and chipped dust jacket and spine, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Extremely rare in this condition. Brilliant edition that became the... More about VARVARA STEPANOVA & MAYAKOVSKY’S COLLABORATION] Groznyi smekh. Okna Rosta [i.e. Menacing...