Ten Poetry and Prose Books in Russian – Avant-garde Designed Covers and Bindings

Ten Poetry and Prose Books in Russian – Avant-garde Designed Covers and Bindings

The collection includes:

• Вещи этого года, до 1 августа 1923 г. [Things of This Year, until August 1, 1923], poems and various texts by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Berlin: Накануне, [1924]. Constructivist cover designed by Nikolai Zaretsky (Николай Васильевич Зарецкий; 1876-1959). MoMA 566.

• Мандрагора, комедия в пяти действиях [Mandragola, a Comedy in Five Acts], by Niccolò Machiavelli. Translated from Italian by Vladimir Rakint and Raisa Blokh; introduction by Yakov Blokh. Berlin: Petropolis, 1924. Cover and six autolithographic prints by Leon Zack (Лев Васильевич Зак; 1892-1980).

• МЕА, Собрание стихов 1922–1924, a book of poems by Valery Bryusov (Валерий Яковлевич Брюсов; 1873-1924), from the years 1922-1924. Moscow: Государственное издательство, [1924]. Modernist cover design.

• Трубка [The Pipe], by Ilya Ehrenburg. Leningrad: Красная новь, 1924. Cover and illustrations by Ilya Rubim (Reuven) Mazel (Илья Моисеевич Мазель; 1890-1967). Handwritten dedication from the year of printing, 1924.

• Бубновый валет и компания, рассказы [Jack of Diamonds and Company], four short stories by Ilya Ehrenburg. Moscow-Leningrad: Издательство Петроград, 1925 (on the cover: 1924). Avant-garde cover design.

• Конармия [Red Cavalry], by Isaac Babel. Moscow: Федерация объединений советских писателей, 1927. Publisher's cover in modernist design.

A collection of stories documenting Babel's service as a war correspondent in the Russian-Polish War (1919-1921), when he accompanied the Red Army's First Cavalry Army. The book is considered Babel's main work, and it documents, among other things, his encounter with the Jewish population and their sufferings during the war.

• Конармия [Red Cavalry], by Isaac Babel. Moscow-Leningrad: Государственное издательство, 1928. Cover designed by Pyotr Alyakrinsky (Пётр Александрович Алякринский; 1892-1961).

• Закат, пьеса [Sunset, a Play], by Isaac Babel. [Moscow]: Артель писателей Круг, 1928. Original binding.

• Чадра [Veil], stories from the East by Stepan Kibalchich (Степан Александрович Кибальчич; 1903-1937). Zhitomir: Космос, [1927]. Cover designed by В. Аверин.

• 1917 в сатире [1917 in Satire], a collection of satirical poems and texts published during 1917, the year of the Communist Revolution, with illustrations and caricatures by various artists. Edited by Shimon Dreizen who added an introduction. Moscow-Leningrad: Государственное издательство, 1928. Cover designed by Leonid Khizhinsky (Леонид Семёнович Хижинский; 1896-1972).

Ten volumes. Size and condition vary.