![MAYAKOVSKII, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930) and Lazar Markovich, 'El' LISSITSKII (1890-1941, illustrator), Dlya Golosa [For the Voice]. Moscow: Lutze & Vogt for the State Publishing House, 1923.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0180_000(010845).jpg?w=1)
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MAYAKOVSKII, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930) and Lazar Markovich, 'El' LISSITSKII (1890-1941, illustrator), Dlya Golosa [For the Voice]. Moscow: Lutze & Vogt for the State Publishing House, 1923.
8° (187 x 130mm). Half-tone title printed in black and red, 24 illustrations printed in black and red, all after Lissitskii, leaves with fore-edges cut to form index tabs. (Inner margin of one gathering split but holding, occasional light spotting.) Original printed orange wrappers after Lissitskii (very light wear).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND WELL-REALISED CONSTRUCTIVIST COLLABORATIONS. A very good copy. Lissitzkii's 'most famous typographically functional book'; 'the cover is a superb example of Lissitsky's familiar system', but 'it is on the inner pages, and in particular, the opening page of each poem, that one discovers Lissitsky's extraordinary inventiveness... he invented bold red and black pictograms, mixing letters and abstract motifs, to visually project the exuberant and exclamatory nature of Mayakovsky's poems. Furthermore, since Mayakovsky's volume of poetry was meant for recitation, Lissitsky's invention of a thumb-tab index for ease in finding each poem epitomizes the notion of the book as functional object' (The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.54). Hogben and Watson, From Manet to Hockney 68; Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 41; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 478.
8° (187 x 130mm). Half-tone title printed in black and red, 24 illustrations printed in black and red, all after Lissitskii, leaves with fore-edges cut to form index tabs. (Inner margin of one gathering split but holding, occasional light spotting.) Original printed orange wrappers after Lissitskii (very light wear).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND WELL-REALISED CONSTRUCTIVIST COLLABORATIONS. A very good copy. Lissitzkii's 'most famous typographically functional book'; 'the cover is a superb example of Lissitsky's familiar system', but 'it is on the inner pages, and in particular, the opening page of each poem, that one discovers Lissitsky's extraordinary inventiveness... he invented bold red and black pictograms, mixing letters and abstract motifs, to visually project the exuberant and exclamatory nature of Mayakovsky's poems. Furthermore, since Mayakovsky's volume of poetry was meant for recitation, Lissitsky's invention of a thumb-tab index for ease in finding each poem epitomizes the notion of the book as functional object' (The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.54). Hogben and Watson, From Manet to Hockney 68; Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 41; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 478.
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