Collection of Booklets – Russian Poetry and Literature – Moscow-Leningrad, 1919-1925 – Covers Designed by Various Artists
Six booklets:
• Ямбы, (Соврем. стихи) [Iambs (Contemporary Poems)], by Alexander Blok (Блок). St. Petersburg: Алконост, 1919.
First edition. Russian. Cover designed by
Nikolai Kupreyanov (Николай Николаевич Купреянов; 1894-1993). Publisher's logo designed by
Yuri Annenkov (Юрий Павлович Анненков; 1889-1974). MoMA 227.
• Челкашъ [Chelkash], a short story by Maxim Gorky (Горький). Petrograd: Изданiе Петроградскаго Совѣта Рабочихъ и Красн. Депутатовъ, 1919. Russian. Cover designed by В.Х.
• Аль-Баррак, Октябрьские поэмы [Al Barrak, October Poems], by Alexander Kusikov (Кусиков). Berlin-Moscow: Накануне, 1923. Russian. Second edition. Cover designed by
Alexander Arnshtam (Александр Мартынович Арнштам; 1880-1969). MoMA 453.
• Бикокс и К°, Роман [Bicox & Co., A Novel], by Otto Pitsch (Питч). Translated from German by E. Levin (Е. Левин). Moscow: Издательство Межрабпом, 1925. Russian. Cover designed by
V. Trivas (В. Тривас).
• Строители мостов (The Day's Work) [Bridge Builders...], a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Translated into Russian by Eva Brodersen (Бродерсен). Leningrad: Мысль, 1925. Russian. Modernist cover (rear cover missing).
• Улица Красных зорь, Стихи [Red Dawn Street, Poems], by Alexander Prokofiev (Прокофьев). Moscow-Leningrad: ЛАПП-Огиз – Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1931. Russian. Cover designed by
Sergei Pozharsky (Сергей Михайлович Пожарский; 1900-1970).
Size and condition vary.