IMAGINISTS – Gostinitsa dlia Puteshestvuiushchikh v Prekrasnom [Hotel for Travelers in the Marvelous]. Nos. 1-4 [all published]. Edited by Nikolai Savkin. Moscow: Vol'nitsa and others, 1922-1924.
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IMAGINISTS – Gostinitsa dlia Puteshestvuiushchikh v Prekrasnom [Hotel for Travelers in the Marvelous]. Nos. 1-4 [all published]. Edited by Nikolai Savkin. Moscow: Vol'nitsa and others, 1922-1924.

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IMAGINISTS – Gostinitsa dlia Puteshestvuiushchikh v Prekrasnom [Hotel for Travelers in the Marvelous]. Nos. 1-4 [all published]. Edited by Nikolai Savkin. Moscow: Vol'nitsa and others, 1922-1924.

A complete set in first edition of this important Imaginist periodical, with contributions from Mandel'shtam ('Senoval'), Mariengof, Gruzinov, Esenin, Kuznetsov, Shershenevich, Erdman, and others. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 439.

Four volumes, quarto (344 x 261mm). Illustrations throughout after various artists; no.4 printed on stronger paper and with illustrations tipped in (margins yellowed; occasional spotting and soiling; occasional tears; no.2 has one bifolium detached but present). Original wrappers, printed in black and varying colours (some wear; some staining). Provenance: I.A. Solovev (penciled signature dated September 1923 on the front cover of no.2); Russian booksellers' usual small stamps.
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