Thirteen issues in twelve fascicules (Year I, Nos. 2-4 and 6; Year III, Nos. 1-9) of the important Italian Futurist architecture journal, under the direction of Fillia, a leader in the Futurist movement, with editorial assistance and contributions from other noted Futurist artists and figures including Alberto Sartoris, Nicolay Diulgheroff..... More

Leningrad-Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1925. Octavo (17 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Leonid Khizhinskii; 87, [2] pp. About very good; private owner stamps of A. J. Liutkevicius; wrappers lightly worn. First and only editon of this collection of narrative poems by Aseev, which includes six cycles, entitled “Avtobiografiia Moskvy,”..... More

New York: self-published by Mariia Burliuk (printed by Bazar Press), 1924. Small quarto (26.5 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 32 pp. Four leaves of plates on coated stock; numerous additional portraits and illustrations reproduced throughout. Publisher’s rubber stamp with address supplied in ink. Two small repairs to corners..... More

[Moscow]: SAAV, [1921]. Octavo (24.7 × 18 cm). Original printed wrappers; 46 pp. Light wear and staining to wrappers; else good or better. This polemical work offers a scathing critique of Imaginism, a movement in avant-garde Russian poetry that polemicized with Futurism (especially with Mayakovsky), and saw the creation of..... More

Istanbul: A. Halit Kitaphanesi, 1932. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 48 pp. Very good, save for very light wear to edges. Second edition of Hikmet’s first book of poetry, originally published in 1929, but issued with a striking cover designed by Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who Suavi..... More

Istanbul: Yeni Kitapçi 1935. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 62, [2] pp. Very good; only very faint wear and discoloration to wrappers. First edition of this volume of poems by Hikmet, with a restrained, but clearly avant-garde-influenced wrapper sign by Ali Suavi. In this cycle of poems Hikmet..... More

Istanbul: İlhami Matbaası 1930. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers; 32 pp. Light wear to wrappers, especially to the spine; small pencil marks on p. 30; else good. First edition of this book of poems by Hikmet, written from 1921 on. Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) is considered the founder of modern Turkish..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly creased; tear to upper edge of two leaves not affecting text; overall very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924 by the avant-garde artist Mieczysław..... More

Tartu: Odamees, 1919. Octavo (21.6 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 124 pp. Wrappers worn and soiled; text block beginning to detach; internally very good. First edition of this volume of poems by the popular Russian Ego-Futurist writer, who settled in Estonia after the October Revolution, where he died during..... More

1921. [Moscow]: Odrnas, 1921. Large octavo (26.5 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 14 pp. Old Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else very good. First and only edition of this treatise about Russian "Imaginism" (Imazhinism), a leading avant-garde movement that succeeded both Symbolism and Futurism, written by a...... More