![IL'YAZD [i.e. Il'ya ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) Lidantiu faram. [Lidantiu as a Beacon]. Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 140mm). Typography by Iliazd. Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Naum Granovskii. [And:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0139_000(010844).jpg?w=1)
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IL'YAZD [i.e. Il'ya ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) Lidantiu faram. [Lidantiu as a Beacon]. Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 140mm). Typography by Iliazd. Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Naum Granovskii. [And:]
IL'YAZD. Ledentu le Phare: poème dramatique en zaoum. Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 16° (185 x 135mm). Stapled, as issued (short shallow creases in top margin of first two leaves). Together 2 volumes, the second inserted in the first. Provenance: David Arkin (inscription from the author, dated 1925).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY IL'YAZD TO HIS FRIEND DAVID ARKIN. A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF IL'YAZD'S SCARCE MASTERPIECE, complete with the pamphlet laid-in. A 'masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde' (Johnson, p.25). Il'yazd's Lidantiu faram is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works. The text, its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark 'a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (Isselbacher, p.37). Number 465 of 500 copies on papier Rubel. Although the edition is stated to be of 530 copies (including 30 on japon impérial), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up, and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed. This copy's recipient, David Arkin wrote a number of books on architecture, including Arkhitektura Sovremennogo Zapada [Architecture of the Contemporary West] (Moscow 1932), designed by El Lissitskii. ABPC RECORDS NO INSCRIBED COPIES SELLING AT AUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS. Isselbacher and Le Gris-Bergmann, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p. 37; Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930, p. 440, no. 277; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein, Libri cubisti 30.
IL'YAZD. Ledentu le Phare: poème dramatique en zaoum. Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 16° (185 x 135mm). Stapled, as issued (short shallow creases in top margin of first two leaves). Together 2 volumes, the second inserted in the first. Provenance: David Arkin (inscription from the author, dated 1925).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY IL'YAZD TO HIS FRIEND DAVID ARKIN. A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF IL'YAZD'S SCARCE MASTERPIECE, complete with the pamphlet laid-in. A 'masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde' (Johnson, p.25). Il'yazd's Lidantiu faram is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works. The text, its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark 'a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (Isselbacher, p.37). Number 465 of 500 copies on papier Rubel. Although the edition is stated to be of 530 copies (including 30 on japon impérial), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up, and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed. This copy's recipient, David Arkin wrote a number of books on architecture, including Arkhitektura Sovremennogo Zapada [Architecture of the Contemporary West] (Moscow 1932), designed by El Lissitskii. ABPC RECORDS NO INSCRIBED COPIES SELLING AT AUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS. Isselbacher and Le Gris-Bergmann, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p. 37; Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930, p. 440, no. 277; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein, Libri cubisti 30.
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