MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.
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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.

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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930; editor) and RODCHENKO, Alexander (1891-1956; designer) – LEF. Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv [LEF. The Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1923-1924.

A complete set, in wrappers, of this pioneering and influential avant-garde periodical designed by Rodchenko. The contributors include: Aseev, Babel, Brik, Eisenstein, Kamenskii, Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov Pasternak, Popova, Stepanova, Terentev, Tretiakov, and others. The final issue features Mayakovsky's celebrated elegy for Lenin. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 500.

Seven volumes, octavo (230 x 153mm). Some volumes partly unopened. Illustrations throughout, some of these printed in colours (margins yellowed; last volume with faint marginal dampstaining). Original illustrated wrappers (vol. 1 rebacked and with the covers lined; other vols with the spines chipped but present; some joints starting, some nearly detached; some browning and spotting). Provenance: Konstantin Antonovich Shimkevich (1883-c.1965, literary critic; stamps in some volumes).
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