How Are Verses Made? by Mayakovsky, Vladimir / G. M. Hyde, English translation and introduction

Jonathan Cape (, 1970. Soft cover. Good/Good. 79 pages, with Notes, Selected Bibliography, A Note on the Author. Cape Editions 43. Translation of short work originally published 1926. Includes Sergei Yesenin's "Farewell Poem" in English translation and Mayakovsky's 1926 "To Yesenin", with Russian original and English translation on facing pages. Mass-market paperback size, elegant format of white wraps with green lettering, pink DJ soiled along the spine, flaps decoratively clipped. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written in pencil on ffep, her notes on same page, and underscoring/marginalia on approximately 20 pages; other pencil notations on rfep.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Paperback. First Edition. 4.25 x 7in. 80pp. Publisher's stuff printed wraps. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows slight shelf rubbing of the extremities. The dust jacket also with shelf rubbing of the extremities with slight loss to the top edge of the back panel, otherwise remains bright and distinct. As pictured.

Cape, nº 43, 1977, Great Britain.. 18x11. 80 p. 616264

Bedminster: The Bristol Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 1853991457 . Former owner's name on verso front cover (Ann Byrne Sutton was a published poet herself). Front and back covers somewhat creased. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; Russian Studies; 21.5 x 13.8 x 0.9 cms; 127 pages; This classic theoretical text by one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century combines polemical writing with 'socio-formalism' (a fusion of Russian formalist theory, constructivism and cultural sociology) . In addition to representing Mayakovsky's attempt to formulate a socialist aesthetic, it is also of great interest as a lively primer in poetics and as a manifesto of avant garde art. The inclusion in this volume of 'A cloud in trousers' and 'To Sergey Esenin' allows the reader to analyse two of the poet's finest early poems in the light of the theory. .

Paperback. Very Good.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970. Pages: 80; Weight: 2.9oz; Size: 7.1" x 4.3" x 0.2". Very light edgewear on cover, spine is slightly sunned, otherwise clean, unmarked, tight. . Very Good. Soft Cover. . . .