14. BELENSON, Aleksandr (editor). Strelets. Tretii i poslednii [The Archer. Third and Final Collection]. St. Petersburg: ["Strelets"], 1922. Vol. 3. 184 pp. 8vo (286 x 193 mm). With 14 plates (some in color) designed by Natan Altman, Iurii Annenkov, Lev Bruni, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nikolai Kulbin, Vladimir Lebedev, Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny), Marc Chagall; and printer's mark by David Burliuk. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers with intermittent staining, chipping to extremities, back detached but present; repairs to backstrip and front wrapper.
Out-of-series copy from an edition of 300. final and most beautiful volume of this rare influential russian futurist anthology. With contributions by Fedor Sologub, Mikhail Kuzmin, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Akhmatova, Lev Karsavin, Erich Gollerbakh, Artur Lure and others. Annenkov also provided the textual decorations. MoMA 447; Getty 756; BM 493; NYPL 291.
A scarce and important Futurist collection.
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