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BELENSON, Aleksandr (editor). Strelets. Sbornik pe

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St. Petersburg: ["Strelets"], 1915. Vol 1. 216 pp. 8vo (235 x 176 mm). Rebound in tan cloth with the original front wrapper designed by Nikolai Kulbin affixed to the new binding. Condition: covers and label lightly thumbsoiled, upper corner of title page clipped with no loss of text; rear wrapper absent. One of 5000 copies. rare first volume of this famous futurist anthology. With contributions by Aleksandr Blok, David Burliuk, Vasilii Kamenskii, Velemir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Benedikt Livshits, Artur Lure, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub and others. Lithographs on blue paper by David Burliuk, Nikolai Kulbin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Wyndham Lewis, Olga Rozanova, Mariya Sinyakova and Mikhail Vrubel. The early Futurist group "Gylaea" [Hylaea] joined forces with the Symbolists, Acmeists, and other unaffiliated artists to issue this first anthology in 1915. It created a sensation. MoMA 114; Borovkov p. 10.

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