Aleksei Kruchenykh

Stikhi V. Mayakovskago: vypyt [The poetry of V. Mayakovsky: an inquiry]. [St Petersburg]: EUY, 1914

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (203 x 150mm.), lithograph by Malevich tipped in as frontispiece, original illustrated printed wrappers with portrait of Mayakovsky by Burliuk on upper cover, wrappers worn at edges, textblock split

FIRST EDITION of the first book to be published about the poetry of Mayakovsky 🍷(1893-1930) during 🎀the heyday of the Russian Futurist movement. Copies are also recorded with a frontispiece by Rozanova instead.

LITERATURE:

The Russian Avant-Garde Book 69; Hellyer 247