Russian Avant-Garde

(MALEVICH, Kazimir). Kruchenykh, Aleksei.

Porosiata [Piglets].

St Petersburg. EUY. 1913. 8vo. With two lithographs by K. Malevich (including one on upper wrapper). Printed on pale green paper. Original publisher's printed wrappers with lithograph by Malevich to front wrapper.

First edition, one of 550 copies. A fine example of Futurist infantilism, this work was supposedly ... (more)

£6,000

ref: 37442

Arkhitektura CCCP. Organ Soiuza Sovetskikh Arkhitekturov. (L'architecture de l'URSS. Architecture of the USSR. Architektur der UdSSR).

Moscow. 1933-35. 4to. 15 issues. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers. All the covers were designed by Lissitsky.

Fifteen issues of the monthly magazine of the Association of the Soviet Architects. Editor in ... (more)

£1,000

ref: 24886

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. Alexandre, Arsene & Jean Cocteau.

L'Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. Essai Critique par Arsene Alexandre. Notes sur les Ballets par Jean Cocteau.

Paris. Maurice de Brunoff, Editeur d'Art. 1913. 4to. pp. 49. Illustrated with portrait ... (more)

Leon Bakst (Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg) was born in Grodno, Belarus in 1866 and died in Paris in ... (more)

£3,500

ref: 37176

BAKST. Levinson, Andre.

Bakst. The Story of the Artist's Life.

London. The Bayard Press. 1923. Large 4to. pp. 240 68 mounted colour and monochrome plates, each with its own guard-leaf. Publisher's parchment binding, soiled and time-darkened, open cracks on both joints. Internally fine.

British edition limited to 315 copies. The first account of Bakst's life and work.

£1,800

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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 prolific ... (more)

£380

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)

£850

ref: 36425

BURLIUK & MALEVICH. Khlebnikov, Velimir.

Riav! Perchatki, 1908 - 1914. (Roar! The Gauntlets, 1908 - 1914).

St. Petersburg. EUY. 1914. Tall 8vo. pp. 29, (3). Illustrated with two monochrome reproductions of works by Kasimir Malevich and two woodcuts by David Burliuk. Original publisher's printed wrappers.

From the edition limited to 1,000 copies. A selection of Khlebnikov's poems and other texts which ... (more)

£2,250

ref: 33408

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

BURLIUK, David, Vladimir MAYAKOVSKY, Aleksei KRUCHENYKH & others.

Sadok Sudei II. (A Trap for Judges II).

St. Petersburg. Zhurval. 1913. Small square 4to. pp. 107. With 15 illustrations, including 5 by Elena Guro, 2 by Larionov and 2 by Goncharova. Printed on blue paper. Original flowered wallpaper covers, printed paper label on upper cover.

Published in an edition of 800 copies this rare collaborative work marks an important stage in the avant-garde movement, and includes a long Hylaean manifesto. [Rowell & Wye MOMA 53].

£6,000

ref: 30281

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