10. BELYI, Andrei [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (1880-1934) Sergei Aleksandrovich ESENIN (1895-1935), Boris PASTERNAK (1890-1960), Vadim Gabrielevich SHERSHENEVICH (1893–1942), Riurek IVNEV (1891-1981), Vasilevich KAMENSKII (1884-1961), Anatolii MARIENGOF (1897-1962) and others. Yav. Stikhi [Reality.Poems]. [Moscow: "Yav"], 1919. 69 pp., tall 8vo (265 x 175 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Aristarkh Lentulov. Condition: light staining to wrappers, tape repairs to backstrip and verso of wrappers.
Designed in the Futurist manner with the text printed on rough, unfinished paper and a revolutionary cover by Lentulov, this anthology included a wide variety of Russian poets such as Pasternak, the Symbolist Belyi, and the Imaginists Esenin, Ivnev, Mariengof and Shershenevich. A facsimile of each poet's signature concludes every individual's selection. MoMA 228; Hellyer 143.
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