Mayakovsky ob Amerike [Mayakovsky about America. Poems - Essays - Newspaper interviews]: Compiled by V. Katanyan.
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- In good condition, , wears to edges of dust jacket's spine, owner’s underlines in text made by pencil/dust-jacket with photoillustration
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About This Item
One of 15.000 copies printed.
First edition.
An unusual book of poems published during the beginning of Cold War, but designed as the best Soviet editions of 1930s. Photoillustration is on the front side of the dust jacket, depicting Mayakovsky posing on the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1925 V. Mayakovsky planned to make a trip around the world, but it didn't work out and the poet didn't get even to the western coast of America and spent three months in USA. The result of the trip was a manuscript of a book of essays Moe otkrytie Ameriki [My discovery of America] and the cycle of poems. Essays interspersed with poems in this edition.
Vasily Katanyan, literary critic, Mayakovsky's biographer and a member of the Left Art Front (LEF), prepared for publication a large corpus of the poet's texts. An editor of this publication was A. Tarasenkov, a famous bibliophile and expert on Soviet poetry of the XXth century.
OCLC locates two copies in USA: in MoMA and Princeton library
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- Bookseller
- Biblionne (RS)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5606
- Title
- Mayakovsky ob Amerike [Mayakovsky about America. Poems - Essays - Newspaper interviews]
- Format/Binding
- In original wrappers, dust-jacket with photoillustration.
- Book Condition
- Used - In good condition, , wears to edges of dust jacket's spine, owner’s underlines in text made by pencil
- Jacket Condition
- dust-jacket with photoillustration
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sovetskij pisatel
- Place of Publication
- Moskva
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 165 pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- [Russian avant-garde. Poetical travelogue. Covers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photomontage; Avant-garde; Poetry;
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