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BURLYUK, David and Nikolai, Vladimir MAYAKOVSKII, Aleksei KRUCHENIKH and others. Dokhlaya luna. Stikhi, prosa, stat'i, risunki, oforty. [The Croaked Moon. Verse, prose, essays, drawings, etchings.] Moscow: First magazine of the Russian futurists, 1914.
8° (232 x 180 mm). With 7-page catalogue. 19 lithographic plates including 17 in blue, one in yellow and one in blue, red and green, and 3 illustrations, by Vladimir and David Burlyuk. (Title skillfully laid down, repaired tears in a few margins, occasional marginal dampstain affecting a few plates.) Wrappers retaining the original front printed cover (rebacked, front cover chipped and repaired). Provenance: Freda Utley? (1899-1978, Anglo-American journalist and author, Soviet and Far East specialist; inscription)
Second and much enlarged edition of this important collective work by 'the only futurists in the world', issued a few months after the first. It is in a larger format, with all the plates printed in colour on stronger, white paper. New texts by Shershenevich, Kamenskii and Bol'shakov are included, while others are left out. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 62; Hellyer 80; Compton p.126.
8° (232 x 180 mm). With 7-page catalogue. 19 lithographic plates including 17 in blue, one in yellow and one in blue, red and green, and 3 illustrations, by Vladimir and David Burlyuk. (Title skillfully laid down, repaired tears in a few margins, occasional marginal dampstain affecting a few plates.) Wrappers retaining the original front printed cover (rebacked, front cover chipped and repaired). Provenance: Freda Utley? (1899-1978, Anglo-American journalist and author, Soviet and Far East specialist; inscription)
Second and much enlarged edition of this important collective work by 'the only futurists in the world', issued a few months after the first. It is in a larger format, with all the plates printed in colour on stronger, white paper. New texts by Shershenevich, Kamenskii and Bol'shakov are included, while others are left out. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 62; Hellyer 80; Compton p.126.
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