![MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930), author, and RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956), designer. Klop. Feericheskaia komediia deviat kartin. [The Bedbug. A Fairy Tale in Nine Scenes.] Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1929.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0191_000(mayakovsky_vladimir_vladimirovich_author_and_rodchenko_aleksandr_mikha111117).jpg?w=1)
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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930), author, and RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956), designer. Klop. Feericheskaia komediia deviat kartin. [The Bedbug. A Fairy Tale in Nine Scenes.] Moscow and St Petersburg: State Press, 1929.
The first edition; in the original wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Rare: ABPC and RBH record no copy having been offered at auction. The Bedbug was written for Meyerhold's theatre, where it was produced with Rodchenko stage designs. The cover design by Rodchenko echoes the dual nature of the story and of a production set half in the present (stage-designed by young cartoonists) and half in the future (stage-designed by Rodchenko). This quasi science fiction satire follows a lapsed and deceased party member whose frozen body is brought back to life by a future generation living ten Five Year Plans hence. The play was serialized earlier in the same year in two issues of Molodaia gvardiia. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 823-824.
Octavo (193 x 131mm). (Faint marginal dampstain in the first gathering; short marginal tears.) Original wrappers printed in brown and blue, designed by Rodchenko (spine with expert small repairs). Provenance: 'S.K...' (indistinct title signature dated November 1929).
The first edition; in the original wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Rare: ABPC and RBH record no copy having been offered at auction. The Bedbug was written for Meyerhold's theatre, where it was produced with Rodchenko stage designs. The cover design by Rodchenko echoes the dual nature of the story and of a production set half in the present (stage-designed by young cartoonists) and half in the future (stage-designed by Rodchenko). This quasi science fiction satire follows a lapsed and deceased party member whose frozen body is brought back to life by a future generation living ten Five Year Plans hence. The play was serialized earlier in the same year in two issues of Molodaia gvardiia. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 823-824.
Octavo (193 x 131mm). (Faint marginal dampstain in the first gathering; short marginal tears.) Original wrappers printed in brown and blue, designed by Rodchenko (spine with expert small repairs). Provenance: 'S.K...' (indistinct title signature dated November 1929).
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