Bloomsbury Auctions: Russian Literature and Art: Lot 98
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930).
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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930). Prostoe kak mychanie [Simple As Mooing]. Petrograd: "Parus," 1916. 118 pp. 8vo. (220 x 150 mm). Original printed brown wrappers. Condition: one signature loose, short closed tears at head and tail of backstrip, minor faint spotting to front cover, previous owner's neat ink signature on upper right front cover and front free endpaper; censored words have been filled in in pencil on pp. 5, 113 and 114. one of 2000 copies of an early collection by this most incandescent of 20th century russian poets. Reprints "Ya" ["Me"] and "Vladimir Mayakovsky, tragediya" ["Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Tragedy"] first published in 1913 and 1914, in addition to one of his most important poems "Oblako v shtanakh" ["A Cloud in Trousers"], first published separately by Osip Brik in 1915.
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