ZDANEVICH, Il’ia Mikhailovich (1894-1975). Ostraf Paskhi. [Easter Island.] Tbilisi: 41°, printed at the Press of the Union of Towns of the Georgian Republic, 1919. Small 4° (212 x 175 mm). Typographic designs by the author. Unopened in original printed wrappers designed by the author (slight dust-soiling). Provenance: Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).

ZDANEVICH, Il’ia Mikhailovich (1894-1975). Ostraf Paskhi. [Easter Island.] Tbilisi: 41°, printed at the Press of the Union of Towns of the Georgian Republic, 1919. Small 4° (212 x 175 mm). Typographic designs by the author. Unopened in original printed wrappers designed by the author (slight dust-soiling). Provenance: Nina Vasil'eva (1889-1979, poet).

FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY of this third play from the author’s five-part cycle 'Aspects of the Donkey', written in transrational language (zaum), often printed phonetically, around murder and resurrection in a slap-stick, absurd manner. RARE: printed in an edition of about 200 copies only. AE and ABPC record only one at auction (Sotheby’s, 9 June 2005, lot 141, £10,800). MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 269-271; 41°, Modernism Inc., 44; Tarasenkov p.150.