KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968) with Natan Isaevich ALTMAN (1889-1971), Nataliya Sergeevna GONCHAROVA (1881-1962), Nikolai Ivanovich KULBIN (1868-1917), Kazimir Severinovich MALEVICH (1878-1935) and Olga Vladimirovna ROZANOVA (1886-1918) (illustrators). Vzorval [Explodity]. St. Petersburg: [Publisher unknown], 1913. 29 pp., 8vo (174 x 118 mm). Second "expanded" edition. With 17 lithographs (10 by Kulbin, 3 by Rozanova, 2 by Malevich, 1 by Altman and 1 by Goncharova). Original lithographed gray wrappers designed by O. Rozanova. Condition: minor rubbing to wrapper extremities and fold, ink stamp and previous owner's inscription on recto of first leaf, ink stamp and small pen marks to back wrapper. one of 450 copies of this landmark russian avant-garde book. Kruchenykh was the most radical of Russian Futurist poets and one of the most innovative poets of the twentieth century. Working directly with his country's great avant-garde artists, he redefined the very nature of the printed book. Written in zaum, Kruchenykh's invented transrational language, the text of Vzorval is a combination of lithographed sheets and pages rubber stamped by the poet himself. The first edition was issued in Spring 1913, the second the following Fall with some rubber-stamped texts dropped or replaced by others. This was the first with Rozanova's cover; she and Kruchenykh were married in 1912. Due to the complexity of the book's composition, it seems unlikely that the stated edition of 450 copies was ever achieved. Few examples survive of this text that by itself announced a signal event in the expansion of poetic and linguistic possibilities of expression. MoMA 55; Hellyer 25.