76/ 608 [Russian avant-garde]. Mayakovsky, V. Pro Eto (About this). Moscow/ Petrograd, Gos. Izd., 1923, 1st ed., 43p., 8 photomontage plates by A. RODCHENKO, later rexine w. orig. photocopied wr. laid down.

- Most plates cut short, affecting image; waterstained almost throughout; 7 leaves repaired in outer top left corner; title-p. creased and fingersoiled; occas. stained; two stamps and annots. in pencil on verso final page. Sold w.a.f.

= Rowell/ Wye 505 and ills. p.210f; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.85; Khan-Magomedov p.118f: "In 1923 Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto was published, with illustrations by Rodchenko which are today regarded as a seminal work of photomontage. In fact, it could be claimed that the painter was the co-author of this work, since he had not limited himself to illustrating the poem in order to render its meaning clearer, but had created a series of artistic compositions, capable of conjuring up profound associations of meaning." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.