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Mayakovsky ob Amerike [Mayakovsky about America. Poems - Essays - Newspaper interviews]

Mayakovsky ob Amerike [Mayakovsky about America. Poems - Essays - Newspaper interviews]

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Mayakovsky ob Amerike [Mayakovsky about America. Poems - Essays - Newspaper interviews]: Compiled by V. Katanyan.

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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 (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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