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RADLOV, Nikolai Ernestovich (1889-1942). O Futur

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Petersburg: "Akvilon," 1923. 71 pp., 8vo (180 x 140 mm). Original white wrappers. Condition: extremities and backstrip tanned, small dampstain to upper back wrapper. An important treatise on Futurism by the influential critic, artist and illustrator. Perhaps Radlov's best remembered painting is his 1926 portrait of Symbolist poet Mikhail Kuzmin. One of 1000 copies.. [With:] Nashi knizhnye znaki [Our Book Plates]. Moscow, 1925. Compiled by Michel Bazikin. 35 pp., 8vo (210 x 145 mm). With eight tipped in bookplates including one erotic design. Original white wrappers. Condition: minor chipping to head and foot of backstrip, some small closed tears to wrapper extremities, front wrapper partially detached but intact; previous owner's bookplates to verso of front wrapper and to recto of final blank. no. 16 of 150 copies with an erotic bookplate. Contains a bibiliography of modern Russian bookplates. The erotic design affixed in the front was the author's personal bookplate.

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