Arkhitektura CCCP. Organ Soiuza Sovetskikh Arkhitekturov. (L'architecture de l'URSS. Architecture of the USSR. Architektur der UdSSR). No. 5.

Moscow. 1934. 4to. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers designed by El Lissitsky.

Single issue of the monthly magazine of the Association of the Soviet Architects. Editor in Chief K ... (more)

£90

ref: 24888

Aseev, Nikolai.

Izbrannie stikhi. (Collected Verses).

Moscow. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo. 1930. 8vo. pp. 235, (6). Original publisher's printed boards with a typographical design in blue, black and white by Aleksandr Rodchenko.

From the edition limited to 3,000 copies, this copy with an inscription to first leaf.

£350

ref: 24850

BAKST. Levinson, André.

The Designs of Leon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess.

London. Ben Brothers. 1923. Folio. pp. 18, (2). Illustrated with vignette title, vignette list of plates, portrait of Bakst by Picasso and 54 mounted colour plates on rectos only, each with its own guard leaf with title. Vellum-backed boards. A few small marks on the front cover, forecorners of binding bumped. otherwise a fine copy.

From the edition limited to 1,000 copies.

£2,400

ref: 37497

BEKHTEREV, V.M.

(Biological Development of Mimics).

St. Petersburg. 1910. 8vo. pp. 38. Monochrome text illustrations. Text in Russian. Original wrappers, chipped at edges.

Presentation copy from the Russian scientist Nekrasov. Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927), the ... (more)

£450

ref: 24862

BIEBL, Konstantin.

Zlom. Nové vydání. [Rupture. New edition].

Prague. Odeon. 1928. 8vo. pp. 64. Typography and 4 coloured typographical compositions by Teige printed on yellow paper. Original wrappers, a fine copy.

Limited edition of 1600 copies. The second, expanded edition of Biebl's surrealistic poems from ... (more)

£650

ref: 36425

BURLIUK, (DAVID & VLADIMIR). Various Authors (See Notes).

Dokhlaia luna. Stikhi, proza, stat'i, risunki, oforty. (Croaked Moon: Verse, Prose, Essays, Drawings and Etchings).

Moscow. Pervyi zhurnal russkikh futuristov. 1914. 8vo. pp. 132. With frontispiece in blue, red & green, 1 etching in yellow on white coated paper, and 17 lithographs in blue, all by David and Vladimir Burliuk, as well as three monochrome illustrations. Later crimson full crushed morocco, preserving original publisher's wrappers. Slipcase.

Second edition. 'Dokhlaia luna' has contributions from many of the most important authors, poets ... (more)

£2,000

ref: 29922

Burliuk, David & Nikolai, Vladimir Mayakovsky & Velimir Khlebnikov.

Trebnikh troikh. Sbornik stikhov i risunkov. (Missal of the Three: A Collection of Poems and Drawings).

Moscow. G. L. Kuz'min and S. D. Dolinskii. 1913. 8vo. pp. 86, (2). Illustrated with fifteen hors-texte monochrome plates (mainly portraits) by various Burliuks (Nadezhda, Vladimir and David), Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladimir Tatlin. Original wrappers with title label pasted down.

From the edition limited to 1,100 copies. The title, 'a triumph of alliteration over meaning ... (more)

£2,500

ref: 30277

Burliuk, David & Nikolai, Vladimir Mayakovsky & Velimir Khlebnikov.

Trebnikh troikh. Sbornik stikhov i risunkov. (Missal of the Three: A Collection of Poems and Drawings).

Moscow. G. L. Kuz'min and S. D. Dolinskii. 1913. 8vo. pp. 86, (2). Illustrated with fifteen hors-texte monochrome plates (mainly portraits) by various Burliuks (Nadezhda, Vladimir and David), Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladimir Tatlin. Original wrappers with title label pasted down.

From the edition limited to 1,100 copies. The title, 'a triumph of alliteration over meaning ... (more)

£2,500

ref: 36866

EHRENBURG, Ilja.

Nesnáze Kavárenského Povalece.

Prague. Odeon. 1927. 8vo. pp. 126, (i). Title page designed by Teige. Original publisher's colour printed wrappers designed by Mrkvicky.

£150

ref: 36695

GONCHAROVA. Parnakh, Valentin.

Samum.

Paris. 1919. 8vo. pp. 43, (2). With 3 original colour hors-texte lithographs by Goncharova, including one printed in blue and black, and another in red and black. Original publisher's printed wrappers, discreet ownership stamp to front wrapper.

The lithographic illustrations by Goncharova are Cubo-Futurist in style and also reflect the ... (more)

£3,500

ref: 36437

GONCHAROVA.

Vesna Posle Smerti. (Spring after Death).

(No place). Kushneriev. 1912. Lithographic title-page and the set of seven lithographs, the seven with printed text in lower margin (signature, date on three sheets and numbering from 1 to 6 and 6a), on smooth wove paper, with full margins. Loose as issued.

These eight lithographs illustrate Tikhon Churilin's poems This early printing, executed in 1912 ... (more)

£5,000

ref: 37451

ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanevich).

Manuscript for the poem Pis'mo ('The Letter').

(Paris). October / December 1946. 8vo. Autograph manuscript in Russian in French childrens ... (more)

Iliazd's autograph manuscript for the poem Pis'mo ('The Letter') inspired by the poet's meeting with ... (more)

£40,000

ref: 37052

KHOZHALKIN, KOLOBOV et al.

Iskhod. Al'manakh pervyi. [Exodus: First Almanac].

Moscow / Petrograd. Khudozhestvennyi klub. 1918. 8vo. pp. 28 With 6 lithographs by Ravdel, Slavin, Tsitskovskii and Usenko (4 coloured by hand). Original purple printed wrappers.

[Rowell & Wye MOMA 208].

£2,500

ref: 37452

KLUTSIS. Kruchenykh, Aleksei.

Priemy Leninskoi rechi. K izucheniu iazyka Lenina. (Methods of Lenin's Discourse: For the Study of Lenin's Language).

Moscow. Vserossiiskii soiuz poetov. 1928. Small 8vo. pp. (2), 60, (4). Illustrated with four monochrome plates by Gustav Klutsis. Original publisher's printed wrappers with typographical design in red and black by Gustav Klutsis.

From the edition limited to 1,000 copies. [Rowell & Wye 741/2].

£1,400

ref: 37459

KONRAD, Karel.

Rinaldino.

Prague. Odeon. 1927. 8vo. pp. 137, (i). Original publisher's printed wrappers with typographic design in blue by Teige, backstrip worn, front wrapper detached.

First edition of Konrad's novel, with a signed presentation on verso of half-title dated 1942.

£100

ref: 36700