- Fine copy. = Rowell/ Wye 939. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Frontwr. first vol. w. 2 mounted lithogr. pieces: "Vologda 1921" and "Proletarii vsekh stran soyedinyaites'" (Proletarians of all countries unite); all wrappers w. restored spots, mostly along spine.
= 1. Svyaschennyj klich (Sacred cry); 2. Sarai (Sarai); 3. Meshok almazov (Bag of diamonds); 4. Krasnyj chas (The red hour (dedicated to Sergei Yesenin)); 5. Vecher (Evening); 6. Pevuchij bereg (The singing shore); 7. Kiburaba (Kiburaba); 8. Zolotoe bezlyudye (The golden desolation); 9. V ogne i slave (In fire and glory); 10. Raskovannyj mir (Unleashed world). Very rare complete set of 10 self-published volumes of poetry. Aleksei Ganin was a close friend of Sergei Yesenin. In 1924 he was among a group of 14 people, mostly artists and poets, arrested on the charge of forming the "Order of Russian fascists". He was exected in 1925 and rehabilitated 40 years later. The first posthumous publication of his works dates from 1991. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Crossed out owner's entry on htitle. Frontwr. loose.
= Rowell/ Wye 600. WITH the very rare addendum "Izvestia LTzK" (fold. newspaper, (4)p., 1 ill.).
- Wr. trifle stained; stamp on verso backwr. = Rowell/ Wye 808. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Good/ fine copy.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135; Rowell/ Wye p.209; Bowlt/ Hernad p.135; Andel p.166. Periodical of the early Russian avantgardist movement. Only 7 issues were published between 1923 and 1924. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Sm. dam. spot at fore-edge of bookblock; wr. trifle foxed; spine splitting at edges.
= Promotional booklet of the Meyerholdt Theatre aimed at informing the provincial soviet audience of the theatre's activities. Very rare.
- Final 4 lvs. w. tiny chipped spot in lower corner. Wr. trifle creased and fingersoiled. Otherwise fine.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 94-110; El Lissitzky Retrospektive 82; Rowell/ Wye 478 and ills. p.194f; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.92ff; Bolliger IV, 679. One of the most striking examples of El Lissitzky's constructivist bookdesign. "The sheer invention of his design of Mayakovsky's For the Voice of 1923 - with its page margins stepped like an address book to form an index to the poems - equals that of Rodchenko's design for About this (Pro eto) of the same year. (...) He built his illustrations from the printers' stock, printing in red as well as black to enliven the pages" (Compton). "Eines des außergewöhnlichsten Bücher, deren typographische Gestaltung Lissitzky übernahm (...)" (El Lissitzky Retrospektive). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Large part of dustwr. renewed (only ±¾ part of orig. frontwr. preserved), w. part of text/ image very carefully reproduced in pen and ink; bookblock and covers sl. wrinkled; some pencil annots.
= Rowell/ Wye 1006 and ill. p.240.
- Creased and sl. frayed.
= Rowell/ Wye 220. Rare periodical with literary contributions by i.a. Osip Mandel'shtam, Aleksandr Blok and Sergei Yesenin. Seven issues were published between 1918 and 1922.
- Wrapper trifle creased.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.