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FUTURISM – KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir, and BURLIUK, David, Vladimir and Nikolai. Zatychka. [The Bung.] [Kherson:] Futuristy 'Gileia' [1913].
The first edition of this early Futurist publication. One of 450 copies only. Copies of this work are also known printed on red paper stock, but copies printed on blue paper, as here, are rarer; copies are also known with a varying number of the plates having been finished with hand-colouring, but most commonly with one hand-coloured plate (as here). MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 20 and p.64.
Quarto (232 x 182mm). Complete with 14 leaves of text printed on strong blue paper; and with four plates by V. Burliuk printed on white paper, one of these hand-coloured (edges very faintly yellowed). Original purple paper wrappers printed in black, the imprint on the front cover printed in gold (spine ends chipped; some wear to the edges; fore-edge of the rear cover with a crude early repair).
The first edition of this early Futurist publication. One of 450 copies only. Copies of this work are also known printed on red paper stock, but copies printed on blue paper, as here, are rarer; copies are also known with a varying number of the plates having been finished with hand-colouring, but most commonly with one hand-coloured plate (as here). MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 20 and p.64.
Quarto (232 x 182mm). Complete with 14 leaves of text printed on strong blue paper; and with four plates by V. Burliuk printed on white paper, one of these hand-coloured (edges very faintly yellowed). Original purple paper wrappers printed in black, the imprint on the front cover printed in gold (spine ends chipped; some wear to the edges; fore-edge of the rear cover with a crude early repair).
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