![TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Kheruvimy svistiat. [The Cherubim are whistling.] Tbilisi: Kuranty, 1919. Small 4° (208 x 175 mm). (Vertical crease to each leaf, small tear on lower outer corner.) Original printed wrappers, upper cover with linocut portrait of the author (spine and margins neatly repaired with slight loss). Provenance: Igor Terent'ev (presentation inscription dated 17 April 1919 to:) – Tatiana Kalashnikova – Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05841_0148_000(terentev_igor_gerasimovich_kheruvimy_svistiat_the_cherubim_are_whistli085351).jpg?w=1)
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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Kheruvimy svistiat. [The Cherubim are whistling.] Tbilisi: Kuranty, 1919. Small 4° (208 x 175 mm). (Vertical crease to each leaf, small tear on lower outer corner.) Original printed wrappers, upper cover with linocut portrait of the author (spine and margins neatly repaired with slight loss). Provenance: Igor Terent'ev (presentation inscription dated 17 April 1919 to:) – Tatiana Kalashnikova – Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Tatiana Kalashnikova. Rare: AE and ABPC record not copy at auction; one copy is located at MoMA, and WorldCat locates just one more, at the University of Amsterdam. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 254.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Tatiana Kalashnikova. Rare: AE and ABPC record not copy at auction; one copy is located at MoMA, and WorldCat locates just one more, at the University of Amsterdam. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 254.
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