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LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illu

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Berlin: Skify, 1922. 56 pp., 8vo (220 x 151 mm). Original wrappers designed by Lissitzky. Condition: wrappers lightly discolored with a few small ink spots to back; minor rubbing to backstrip. A satirical review of Mayakovsky's famous verse drama Misteriya-Buff (1919) by the literary critic and intellectual historian Ivanov-Razumnik. The play was written on the eve of the October Revolution and produced in two different incarnations by Meierkhold, first in 1918 and subsequently in 1921. MoMA 412.

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