Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection

"Barefoot Girls", Book of Poems by Vasily Kamensky – Tbilisi, 1917

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Девушки босиком, Стихи [Barefoot Girls: Verse], by Vasily Kamensky. Tbilisi: Прогресс, 1917 (Rear cover: 1916). Russian.

The second book of poems by Vasily Kamensky (Василий Васильевич Каменский; 1884-1961), Russian poet, playwright, and artist, a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement and a member of the Futurist poets' group "Hylaea", alongside his friends Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexei Kruchenykh, Elena Guro, Velimir Khlebnikov, and David Burliuk.
A photographic portrait of Kamensky appears in the beginning of the volume.

144 pages. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. Minor tears to edges of cover (small open tear to one corner of back cover). Inscriptions and stamps.
MoMA 150.
Books of Poetry and Prose with Artistically Designed Covers
Books of Poetry and Prose with Artistically Designed Covers