BELYI, Andrei (1880-1934; editor) and EL LISSITZKY (1890-1941; designer) – Epopeia. Literaturnyi ezhemesiachnik [Epic. A Literary Monthly]. Nos 1-4 [all published]. Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922-1923.
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BELYI, Andrei (1880-1934; editor) and EL LISSITZKY (1890-1941; designer) – Epopeia. Literaturnyi ezhemesiachnik [Epic. A Literary Monthly]. Nos 1-4 [all published]. Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922-1923.

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BELYI, Andrei (1880-1934; editor) and EL LISSITZKY (1890-1941; designer) – Epopeia. Literaturnyi ezhemesiachnik [Epic. A Literary Monthly]. Nos 1-4 [all published]. Moscow and Berlin: Gelikon, 1922-1923.

A complete set, in first edition, of Belyi's influential literary journal, with cover design by El Lissitzky. Contributors include Belyi himself, Blok, Khodasevich, Remizov, Tsvetaeva, and others. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 403.

Four volumes, octavo (215 x 143mm, with deckle edges). With the adverts in volume 1. (Margins yellowed; faint dampstain in the bottom margin of vol. 2; occasional light wear in the margins; a few leaves loose.) Original wrappers printed in various colours, after a design by El Lissitzky (some joints starting; some wear at the extremities; some soiling). Provenance: vol. 3 with indistinct signature on the half title, and Yugoslav bookseller's label on the title.
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