rUSSIAN FUTUrIST LITErATUrE

Lots 213–226

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213 (SOVIET POLITICAL POSTER) FIVE YEAR PLAN Razvitie narodnogo zdravookhraneniia. [The Development of the Nation’s Public Health Service] Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatelstvo, 1930. Color photomontage offset lithograph poster showing the projected improvements in the health service during the Five Year Plan. No. 28 20 x 28 inches. $1,500-2,500 214 (SOVIET POLITICAL POSTER) FIVE YEAR PLAN Sotsial’noe strakhovanie. [Social Insurance] Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatelstvo, 1930. Color photomontage offset lithograph poster showing projected increases in the numbers covered by different forms of social security or in amounts spent on social security in the Five Year Plan. No. 25 20 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches. $1,500-2,500

215 (KULBIN, NIKOLAI IVANOVICH, illus.) BELENSON, ALEKSANDR Zabavnye stishki. [Humorous Rhymes] St. Petersburg: [“Satrikon”], 1914.

8vo, publisher’s printed wraps. First edition of this collection of poems, illustrated throughout with black and white lithographs by Kulbin. Signatures separated; manuscript notation to upper cover. $700-900

216 (GONCHAROVA, NATALIA, illus.) RUBAKIN, ALEXANDER Gorod. [The City] Paris: For the Author, 1920.

8vo, publisher’s printed wraps, uncut and unopened. First edition, with 52 illustrations by Goncharova, of which nine are full-page. One of 300 copies on Arches, this one unnumbered and out of a series. Light soiling to edges; a few brown spots. $2,000-4,000 217 (GRIGORIEV, BORIS, illus.) CHERNYI, SASHA Detskii Ostrov. [Children’s Island] Berlin and Gdansk: Slovo, n.d. [1921]

4to, publisher’s half cloth with color lithograph illustration mounted to upper board, top edge dyed yellow. First edition of this collection of verse about toys, games and zoo animals, profusely illustrated with lithographs by Boris Grigoriev. Apparently the artist’s only children’s book. Gilt-lettered spine faded; soiling and dampstain to boards with some loss to bottom corner; hinges tender; bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown; some light soiling to pages. Literature: De Saint-Rat 93-94 $800-1,200

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218 (KLUSTIS, GUSTAV, illus.) KRUCHENYK, ALEKSEI Na bor’bu s khuliganstvom v literature. [On the Battle Against Hooliganism in Literature] Moscow: By the Author, 1926.

8vo, publisher’s lithographed pictorial wraps by Gustav Klustis featuring a skull with knife and gun on upper cover and a woman holding hatchets with the inscription “Rubicha” to back cover. First edition of this compilation of Futurist essays. One of 5,000 copies. Wraps detached and soiled with loss to backstrip. Literature: MOMA 645 $500-700 219 (MYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR, et al.) LUNACHARSKY, ANATOLY, ed. Rzhanoe slovo. Revolutsionnaya khrestomatiya furturistov. [Rye-World. A Futurist Revolutionary Reader] Preface by Redaktsionnaya Kollenga. Petrograd: Izdatel’stvo molodykh, 1918.

Folio, publisher’s hand-painted wraps by Mayakovsky, with wallpaper back cover. An anthology of Futurist poetry, with contributions by Nikolai Asseev, David Burliuk, Vasilii Kamenskii, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Viktor Khlebnikov. MOMA 190, offset lithograph copy - this copy with hand-painted wraps and wallpaper, out of series of 5,000. Wraps lightly worn with a few small tears and spine professionally restored; a few small tears to leaves, overall toned. $1,000-2,000

220 220 (LARIONOV, M., et al.) DONKEY’S TAIL GROUP Oslinyi khvost i mishen. [The Donkey’s Tail and the Target] Moscow: TS. A. Munster, 1913.

4to, publisher’s printed wraps with illustration by Larionov on upper cover. One of 525 copies of this Russian Futurist collection of essays, with 10 tipped-in lithographs Larionov and black and white illustrations by Goncharova, Le-Dantiu, Levkievsky, Romanovich, and others. Wrappers deteriorating and strengthened with archival board; sewn contents largely detached. $600-800

221 RODCHENKO, ALEXANDER L’Art decoratif et industriel de l’U.R.S.S. Moscow: edition du comite de la section de l’U.R.S.S. a l’exposition internationale des arts decoratifs. Paris, Goznak, 1925.

4to, publisher’s wrappers with Constructivist design by A. Rodchenko. First edition of this important catalogue for the 1925 International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris, with 13 sepia-tone and color plates (two tipped-in) representing Socialist fine and decorative arts in Russia. Rodchenko’s cover is one of the most important examples of Russian Constructivist art. Also included are articles by Lebedeff, Arkine, Tugenhold, Nocolsky, Kameneff and others. From an edition of 3000. Light soiling to wraps with 1/2-inch separation to foot of spine; some pages warped and soiled. $1,000-2,000 222 No Lot

223 (VASNETSOV, YURI, illus.) BIANKI, VITALI Chvosty. [Tails] Moscow: Detskaya literatura, 1939.

12mo, publisher’s color lithograph wraps. With seven whimsical full-page color lithographs of nature scenes after celebrated Russian children’s illustrator, Yuri Vasnetsov, protege of Vladimir Lebedev. Light wear to leaves at hinges; otherwise colors are bright and beautifully rendered. $500-700

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224 (RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE) [Historic Exhibition of Architecture.] Saint Petersburg, 1911. Text in Russian.

4to, publisher’ photo-pictorial wraps. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of historical buildings, interiors and decorative arts in Saint Petersburg. Two pages starting; covers worn and creased with some loss. $100-200 225 U.S.S.R. IN CONSTRUCTION A group of 12 issues of U.S.S.R. in Construction. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishing House “Iskusstvo,” 1933, 1936 and 1939.

Folio, publisher’s printed wraps, comprising 1933 (vols. 6-8, 11-12. Text in English), 1936 (vols. 1, 3, and 6. Text in Russian) and 1939 (vol. 6. Text in English). Light wear to wraps with fading and some loss at edges and corners. $100-200

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