![KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilevich (1884-1961) and Pavel Varfolomevich KUZNETSOV (1878-1968, illustrator). Moi zhurnal-Vasiliia Kamenskogo. [Vasilii Kamenskii's My Journal. Number 1 (all published).] Moscow: MSNKh, February 1922. Folio (340 x 250mm). Two half-tone illustrations. (Repair in the fore margin of each leaf, margins yellowed). Original illustrated wrappers by Kuznetsov and Bedutova (neat repairs on the verso along the spine fold, lower edge, and folding crease, lightly browned, staple replaced with a stitch).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05841_0161_000(kamenskii_vasilii_vasilevich_and_pavel_varfolomevich_kuznetsov_moi_zhu090211).jpg?w=1)
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KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilevich (1884-1961) and Pavel Varfolomevich KUZNETSOV (1878-1968, illustrator). Moi zhurnal-Vasiliia Kamenskogo. [Vasilii Kamenskii's My Journal. Number 1 (all published).] Moscow: MSNKh, February 1922. Folio (340 x 250mm). Two half-tone illustrations. (Repair in the fore margin of each leaf, margins yellowed). Original illustrated wrappers by Kuznetsov and Bedutova (neat repairs on the verso along the spine fold, lower edge, and folding crease, lightly browned, staple replaced with a stitch).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND ONLY NUMBER OF THIS RARE LITERARY JOURNAL, WITH COVER DESIGN BY KUZNETSOV. AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction. Kamenskii founded the Futurist group ‘Hylaea’ with Velimir Khlebnikov and David Burliuk, and produced Tango s korovami (1914), one of the rarest and most desirable Russian avant-garde books. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 370 and p.135.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND ONLY NUMBER OF THIS RARE LITERARY JOURNAL, WITH COVER DESIGN BY KUZNETSOV. AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction. Kamenskii founded the Futurist group ‘Hylaea’ with Velimir Khlebnikov and David Burliuk, and produced Tango s korovami (1914), one of the rarest and most desirable Russian avant-garde books. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 370 and p.135.
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