KRUCHENYKH, Aleksey (1886-1968) and KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir (1885-1922), and GONCHAROVA, Natalia (1881-1962; illustrator). Mirskontsa . [Worldbackwards.] Moscow: [G.L. Kuzmin and S.D. Dolinskyi, 1912]. The first edition of this major Russian avant-garde work, with the original cover decoupage by Goncharova. Mirskontsa ‘occupies a unique place in the history of the Russian avant-garde’, being ‘the first lithographic collection of the Russian futurists and the outcome of an intricate collaboration, in which a group of poets and painters worked closely together to create a new form of book art’ (Perloff). It includes thirteen illustrations by Goncharova, four by Rogovin, nine by Larionov and one by Tatlin. Each of the 220 copies bears a unique cover produced by Goncharova. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book , 14-18 and pp. 68-69; Perloff, ‘ Mirskontsa ’ in Getty Research Journal , 5 (2013), p. 101. Octavo (190 x 145mm). With lithographed illustrations throughout (probably wanting three leaves, last leaf detached at lower gutter, somewhat age browned, few outer margins frayed). In the original wrappers (joints partly detached but firm, small loss at foot of spine, edges frayed). Provenance: indistinct autograph (upper wrapper).
KRUCHENYKH, Aleksey (1886-1968) and KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir (1885-1922), and GONCHAROVA, Natalia (1881-1962; illustrator). Mirskontsa . [Worldbackwards.] Moscow: [G.L. Kuzmin and S.D. Dolinskyi, 1912]. The first edition of this major Russian avant-garde work, with the original cover decoupage by Goncharova. Mirskontsa ‘occupies a unique place in the history of the Russian avant-garde’, being ‘the first lithographic collection of the Russian futurists and the outcome of an intricate collaboration, in which a group of poets and painters worked closely together to create a new form of book art’ (Perloff). It includes thirteen illustrations by Goncharova, four by Rogovin, nine by Larionov and one by Tatlin. Each of the 220 copies bears a unique cover produced by Goncharova. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book , 14-18 and pp. 68-69; Perloff, ‘ Mirskontsa ’ in Getty Research Journal , 5 (2013), p. 101. Octavo (190 x 145mm). With lithographed illustrations throughout (probably wanting three leaves, last leaf detached at lower gutter, somewhat age browned, few outer margins frayed). In the original wrappers (joints partly detached but firm, small loss at foot of spine, edges frayed). Provenance: indistinct autograph (upper wrapper).
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