Recent Arrivals from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books
Recent Arrivals from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books
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H2SO4
by Bidzina Abuladze, sh. Alkhazishvili, Akakii Beliashvili, Niko Chachava, Simon Chikovani, Zhango Gogoberidze, Paule Nozadze and N. Shangelaia.eds.
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- 1924
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 32,820.00
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Quarto 29x21.5 cm, wrappers, 48 leaves, 96pp. Edition of 1000 copies. Imraklii Gamrekeli (1894-1943) and Beno Gordeziani (1894-1975) were the art editors and designers of this masterpiece of the Georgian avant-garde. Cover with letterpress typographic design by Gamrekeli, photomechanical reproductions of Gamrekeli and Gordeziani throughout, with texts of typographic designs. This audacious and wonderful statement is the most famous of… Read more about this item Item Price
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MYSTETSTVO. Literaturno-mystets’ki tyzhnevyk ukrains’koi sektsii vseurkrlitkoma. Chislo druhe, Cherven’ 1919
by Mykhailo Semenko, ed.
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- 1919
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 3,418.75
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Quarto 28x21.6 cm., wrappers, 56pp. Illustrations and decorations by Heorhiy Narbut, Anatol Petrytskyi. The second volume but third number of eight of this important artistic-literary journal. Semenko here includes members of the original group of Futurists and Mystetstvo-aligned authors, but directs it towards a Marxist and proletarian order, moving to an integration with the Communist Party. It would prove to… Read more about this item Item Price
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MYSTETSTVO. Literaturno-mystets’ki tyzhnevyk ukrains’koi sektsii vseurkrlitkoma. Tvaren’ ch. 1.
by Mykhailo Semenko, ed.
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- 1919
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 3,555.50
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Quarto 28x22.5 cm. wrappers, 40 pp. Mystetstvo (Art) was an ambitious journal of the new revolutionary Ukraine with tis own national commitment to Ukrainian art and culture. The editor Mykhailo Semenko was one of the chief exponents of Futurist poetry and literature as it evolved uniquely in Ukraine. Most of this number is focused on the work of Les Kurbas… Read more about this item Item Price
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.: MYSTETSTVO U KNIKI 1920 Chislo 1
by Mykhailo Semenko, ed.
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- 1920
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 3,692.25
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Quarto 30.5x22.7 cm., original wrappers, 82pp. Cover, frontispiece, decorations and
tailpieces by Heorhii Narbut. A literary and artistic review. Mystetstvo (Art) was an important
journal which appeared in eight numbers between May and July of 1919 in Kyiv, one later in 1919 and one in April of 1920. The editors were Hnat Mykhailychenko and Mykhailo Semenko.
Contributors included some of the most significant… Read more about this item Item Price
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RECH’, proiznesennaia na otkrytii Petrogradskikh Gosudarstevnnykh Svobodnykh Khudozhestvenno-Uchebnykh Masterskikh 10-go oktiabria 1918 g
by A.V Lunacharsky
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- 1918
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 2,324.75
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Octavo 16.5x12 cm., wrappers, 32pp. Cover design by Iosif Solomonovich Shkol'nik (1882-1926), a theater artist and painter who worked closely with Filonov and is part of the unknown avant-garde artists of the era. His style fits right into the esthetic of the Segodnia workshop group, which was founded or supported in part by Lunacharsky, and his speech given here was… Read more about this item Item Price
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15 LET PERVOI KONNOI ARMII. Ogonek spetsial’nyi nomer.
by Mikhail Kol'tsov, ed.
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- 1935
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Quarto 29.5x22.5 cm., stiff wrappers, 114 pp. A special number of Ogonek celebrating 15 years of the First Red Cavalry. Full cover design by N. Zhukov, with photos by Giorgii Zel'ma, A. Bunimovich, D. Debabov, M. Markov, A. Skurikhin. Graphics by Boris Efimov, V. Mikhailov, A. Chernomordik. Articles by Voroshilov, Budenny, the poet Kirsanov, inter alia. OCLC locates holdings at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Izbrannye stikhi, V perevodakh russkikh poetov
by Volodimir Sosiura
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 1,504.25
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Octavo 17.5x12.5 cm., wrappers, 112 pp., 2000 copies. Foreword by M. Ravich-Cherkasskii. Bagritsky translated a majority of these poems. Volodymyr Sosiura (1898-1965) is recognized as one of Ukraine's most important lyric poets. A party member from early on, he was twice expelled for "nationalistic overtones" in his work and was forced to undergo "re-education" as a factory worker from 1930-1931.… Read more about this item Item Price
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ISKUSHENIE. Dramaticheskaia skazka v volnykh stikhakh v 4-kh stsenakh.
by A.V Lunacharsky
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- 1922
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 1,094.00
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Octavo 18x11.5 cm., wrappers, 88pp. 2000 copies.. A dramatic story in free verse, in 4 scenes. Constructivist cover design, unattributed. OCLC finds only one physical copy held institutionally worldwide (Univ MI). A rare publication from VKhUTEMAS. A near fine copy, unopened, with slight darkening on cover edges. Item Price
SGD 1,094.00
Znak Zorro, Duglas Ferbenks
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- 1925
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 1,504.25
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Large folio 35x26.5 cm., wrappers, (6) pp. Cover drawing by Nyk. Kravchenko. An oversize promotional edition by Sovkino, with an essay on Fairbanks and raves from the press for his role in this silent favorite, with a full-page promotion for the inaugural showing of Robin Hood. Glavlit 42303. No institutional holdings found in worldcat Item Price
SGD 1,504.25
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MASTERSTVO TEATRA. Vremennik Karmernogo Teatra.Nos. 1-2
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- 1922-23
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 3,008.50
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Octavo 22x17.5 cm., original wrappers, 111, 112 pp. Nos. 1-2 (all published). Illustrated with drawings by Kuznetsov, Lopukhin, and with photographs. Contributors include A. Tairov, K. Bal'mont, Shpet, Toporkov, inter alia. OCLC locates six North American institutional holdings. No.1 has light stains on first two pages, No. 2 fine. Item Price
SGD 3,008.50
Tridnadtsat' trubok
by Il'ia Erenburg
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- 1923
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 2,461.50
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Octavo, original wrappers, 258 (3) pp. The first edition of this work that inspired Constructivist thought and esthetics. Erenburg wrote this set of satirical stories using one of the pipes from his collection. Cover design by Liubov' Kozintseva (1898-1978). The cover design for this first edition is iconic. Erenburg's essay with striking cover had a great impact in Poland… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tridnadtsat' trubok
by Il'ia Erenburg
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- 1924
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 2,871.75
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Octavo 18x13 cm., wrappers, 228 (5) pp. Erenburg wrote this set of satirical stories using one of the pipes from his collection Cover design by Liubov' Kozintsova or Kozintseva (1898-1978) wife of Erenburg. She studied under Aleksandra Ekster, Robert Falk and Rodchenko and exhibited in Berlin, participating in the 1st Russian art exhibition, in Der Sturm Gallery and the left… Read more about this item Item Price
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OTCHET IZBIRATELIAM 1931-1934. Materialy o rabote Leninskogo raionnogo soveta RK I KD, Moskva
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- 1934
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Quarto 26.5x18 cm., wrappers, 112pp., with 26.5x17 cm. foldout. Cover and book design by Nikolai Sedel'nikov and V. Ignatovich. The book addresses the work done to develop the Lenin District of Moscow, its communal economy, cultural objectives, etc. The Leninsky District was an administrative unit that existed from 1930 to 1991. Nikolai Sedel'nikov (1904-1995) was a highly talented graphic designer… Read more about this item Item Price
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Staatstheater W. Meyerhold
by Meyerhold, Vsesolod (Klutsis cover)
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- 1930
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SGD 2,051.25
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Quarto 24.5x19 cm., stiff wrappers in silver jacket, 46pp. Dust wrapper design by Gustav Klutsis. The accompanying book to Meyerhold's tour abroad in 1930 when he took the State Theater (Gos TIM) to Germany and France where he received acclaim. The book is replete with photos and summaries of Biomechanics, and various plays with cast featured, including Liubov Popova's work… Read more about this item Item Price
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Knizhka pro Kniki
by S. Marshak. Risunki D. Mitrokhina.
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- fourth
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- 1928
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SGD 1,504.25
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Squarish octavo 22.5x19 cm., wrappers, (10) pp. A slovenly boy severely abuses the books in his household, leaving missing covers, torn pages, and other damage in such classics as The Brothers Grimm, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe, among others. The books decide to escape, and flee en masse to the public library where they are greeted by a strong, stern,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kartoshka
by Ia. Meksin. Risunki K. Kuznetsova.
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 957.25
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Octavo 19.5x15 cm., wrappers, 12pp Iakov Petkovich Metsin (1886-1943) was a Soviet children's book author, publisher, editor, and bookseller. Maksin was largely responsible for the overall direction of children's literature in the USSR under various bureaus until his arrest in 1938. A story about the chocolate potato. With artwork by Konstantin Vasil'evich Kuznetsov (1873-1943), book artist, animator, and engraver. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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O BEREZE, O MOROZE, ELKAKH DA IGOLKAKH
by A. Kovalenskii; N. Kupreianov illus
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- 1928
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 1,504.25
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Oblong octavo 19.5x15 cm., wrappers, 22pp. Drawings by Nikolai Kupreianov (1894-1933). Finely rendered nature introduction to young readers. Aleksandr Viktorovich Kovalenskii (1897-1965) was a symbolist poet who authored children's books in the 1920s and 30s. OCLC locates three holdings in North wAmerica. A fine copy. Item Price
SGD 1,504.25
150.000.000
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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- 1921
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Octavo 18x13.5 cm., wrappers. 70 pp. The first edition of this epic work, published anonymously. Released in 5000 copies, Lenin was nonplussed, and dismissed Mayakovsky as "one of those Futurists" who he detested, and called it "hooligan communism." The poem had tremendous propagandistic effect, however, and proclaimed itself as Russia's Iliad. It was subsequently reprinted, translated into many languages, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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VOZNIKNOVENIE GORODA. Stikhotvorenaia – povest’.
by Vladimir Zavodchikov
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- 1931
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 1,025.62
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Octavo 18x13 cm., boards, 48pp. Cover design by N.O. Iakubovyi Munts. Vladimir Pavlovich Zavodnikov (1904-1969) was a Komsomol poet and war correspondent. The present work, The Emergence of the City, includes photographs of urban building in various stages. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (Stanford, Ohio State Univ). A fine copy. Item Price
SGD 1,025.62
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Groshki i meshki. Risunki Tat’iany Krshinovskoi.
by Iakov Godin
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- 1931
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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SGD 957.25
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Octavo 20x15 cm., wrappers, (12) pp. Iakov Godin (1887-1954) was a Russian poet, translator, and editor. No biographical data for the illustrator Tatiana Krshinovskaia is currently available . OCLC finds one North American institutional holding (Harvard) for this work. A fine copy Item Price
SGD 957.25
