Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Part I
"Stone, " Poems by Osip Mandelstam – Moscow-Petrograd, 1923 – Cover Design by Aleksandr Rodchenko
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Камень, Первая книга стихов [Stone, First Book of Poems] by Osip Mandelstam. Moscow-Petrograd (Moscow-St. Petersburg): Государственное издательство [State Publisher], Библиотека современной русской литературы [Library of Modern Russian Literature series], 1923. Third Edition (content modified with each edition). Russian. Cover Design: Aleksandr Rodchenko.
Third edition of the first book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, first published in 1913 (in the second and third editions printed under this title, changes were introduced in both the selection of poems and their number).
The cover design is the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) – a Russian artist, designer, sculptor, and photographer, one of the founders of Russian Constructivism.
95, [4] pp., 18 cm. Good condition. Minor tears and creases to edges of cover and to some leaves. Last leaf partly detached from book block. Stains, particularly to cover.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Third edition of the first book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, first published in 1913 (in the second and third editions printed under this title, changes were introduced in both the selection of poems and their number).
The cover design is the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) – a Russian artist, designer, sculptor, and photographer, one of the founders of Russian Constructivism.
95, [4] pp., 18 cm. Good condition. Minor tears and creases to edges of cover and to some leaves. Last leaf partly detached from book block. Stains, particularly to cover.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Yiddish Culture and Literature, Russian Avant-Garde
Yiddish Culture and Literature, Russian Avant-Garde