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KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir [Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnik

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Moscow : Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 32 pp. Small square 8vo (190 x 140 mm). Portrait frontiispiece. Original tan wrappers designed by V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis. Condition: small tears to covers. RARE POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN FUTURIST WRITER AND EDITED BY HIS FELLOW ADVOCATE OF THE 'TRANSRATIONAL' KRUCHENYKH. One of 2000 copies. Khlebnikov was a seminal figure in the Russian Futurist movement and one of the most influential Russian poets of the modern age. In 1912 he coined the neologism Budetlyane (Men of the Future), encapsulating the Futurist ethos in one word. His fellow Futurist poet Aleksei Kruchenykh edited this notebook after his friend suffered a stroke and tragically died at the age of 37. MoMA 598.