Beschreibung:

Four posthumous studies of The Poet of the Revolution.
Comprising: AVERBAKH, Leopold (1903-1938?). Pamyati Mayakovskii [Recollections of Mayakovsky] . Moscow: "Moskovskii Rabochii," 1930. 32 pp., small 8vo (170 x 125 mm). Original two-color Constructivist wrappers. Condition : wrappers lightly faded, scattered marginalia in colored pencil. suppressed posthumous monograph on mayakovsky . Shortly before Mayakovsky committed suicide, he was viciously attacked by RAPP or the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. They wrote generally bland socially committed literature and discouraged any individualism in style or content. Averbakh was the leading leftist RAPP critic. Trotsky called him a "facile nonentity" and Isaiah Berlin identified him as "the most uncompromising fanatic of a strictly collectivist proletarian culture." Nevertheless Averbakh wielded considerable power, though that vanished when his book on Mayakovsky was banned and confiscated after Stalin canonized the dead poet as a Leftist Saint. Evidently Averbakh died in the Great Purge. [With:] AZAROV, Vsevolod Borisovich and S. SPASSKII (editors). Mayakovskomu spornik vocpominanii i statei [and Articles] . Leningrad: GIZ, 1940. 248 pp., 8vo (215 x 165 mm). Title in red and black. Illustrated. Original stamped gray green boards designed by V. Dvorakovskii Condition : light spotting to covers, joints tender. Collection of 22 tributes to the great Russian by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Brik, Olga Forsh and others. Condition: [And:] SHKLOVSKII, Viktor Borisovich, (1893-1984). O Mayakovskom [About Mayakovsky ]. Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel 1940. 224 pp., small 8vo (170 x 110 mm). Title in red and black. Original stamped brown boards. Condition : spine slightly cocked. Important study of the poet by one of the one of the most influential Russian critics of the Soviet period and a great admirer of Mayakovsky. [And:] KATANYAN, Vasilii Vasilevich (1902-1980) (editor). Vladimir Mayakovsky . Moscow: GIZ, [1932]. 288 pp., 4to (237 x 180 mm). Title in red and black. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Mayakovsky. Original two-toned cloth in gray and red. Preface by Osip Brik. Illustrated with reproductions of portraits, posters and other graphics by Mayakovsky. Condition : light toning to endpapers. An important early visual history of the poet and his graphic work. The editor Katanyan was Lilya Brik's stepson. (4)