Avant-garde - Russia - Sel'vinskij, Ilya L. Zapiski... Lot 924

Avant-garde - Russia - Sel'vinskij, Ilya L. Zapiski poeta. (Notes of a poet). The cover design by El Lissitzky with his famous montage portrait of "Evgenij Nej". With two typographical plates (one of which folded several times). Moscow and Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1928. 91 p., 1 p. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Two-color illustrated original paper boards (edges rubbed and creased, back cover stamped several times). First edition. - Turchinskij, p. 479 - Rozanov, 3855 - The portrait of the imaginary poet E. Nej, created by multiple exposures, was made from Lissitzky's photographs of Hans Arp. The large allonge combines parodistic verses on A. Blok, V. Mayakovskij, N. Aseev, B. Pasternak, A. Kruchenyh and others. The second plate with a further typographical "portrait" of E. Nej - endpapers and title with ownership notes, folding plate with two tears of approx. 5 cm each, otherwise well preserved inside. VAT: *