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KULAGINA-KLUTSIS, Valentina Nikiforovna (1902-19

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Moscow: Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 61 pp., 8vo (180 x 145 mm). Original two-color Constructivist wrappers designed by Kulagina. Condition: minor staining to wrappers, reglued at backstrip. A survey of propaganda written by the three prominent poets for the famous avant-garde journal LEF with an introduction and notes by Kruchenykh. One of 3000 copies. [With:] KULAGINA-KLUTSIS, Valentina Nikiforovna (1902-1987) (illustrator) and Velimir KHLEBNIKOV (1885-1922). Zapisnaya knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Sobral i snabdil primechaniyami A. Kruchenykh [Velimir Khlebnikov's Notebook. Collected and Supplied with Notes by A. Krchenykh]. Moscow : Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 32 pp., small square 8vo (190 x 140 mm). Portrait frontispiece. Original tan wrappers designed by V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis. Condition: wrappers slightly faded with slight wear to extremities; previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. rare posthumous publication of the great russian futurist writer; 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 or 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. (2)

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