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Collection of Early Soviet Poetry Books – Modernist Illustrated Covers – Moscow-Leningrad, 1922-1933 - Yuri Annenkov and Others


A collection of five Soviet poetry books:

1. Брага, вторая книга стихов, 1921-1922 [Braga (an alcoholic beverage), Second Book of Poems, 1921-1922], by Nikolai Tikhonov (Николай Тихонов). Moscow: Круг, 1922. Cover designed by Yuri Annenkov (Ю́рий Па́влович А́нненков; 1889-1974).
On the front flyleaf, a handwritten dedication by the Soviet literary critic Kornely Zelinsky (Корнелий Люцианович Зелинский; 1896-1970), dated 12.9.1930. MoMA 366.

2. Как пахнет жизнь [How Life Smells], poems by Alexander Bezymensky (Александр Безыменский); introduction by Leon Trotsky [his name crossed out in blue pen on the title page and at the end of the introduction]. Moscow: Издательство Красная Новь, 1924. Cover designed by Yuri Annenkov (Ю́рий Па́влович А́нненков; 1889-1974). MoMA 528.

3. Червонное казачество [The Red Cossacks], poems by Dmitry Petrovsky (Дмитрий Петровский). Moscow-Leningrad: Земля и фабрика, 1928. Cover designed by L. Voronov (Л. Воронов).

4. 1920-1928, Стихотворения, poems by Pavel Antokolsky (Павел Антокольский). Moscow-Leningrad: Государственное издательство, 1929.

5. Стихи и поэмы [Poems and Poemas], by Boris Kornilov (Борис Корнилов). Leningrad: Гихл, 1933. Cover designed by A. Ushin (А. Ушина).


Five books. Size and condition vary.