BEZYMENSKII, A.; Boris EFIMOV (design)

Komsomoliia: Stranitsy Epopei. Izdanie Piatoe

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, [1929]. Fifth Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 79pp. A few small tears to spine, old rubberstamp to rear wrapper effaced with later ink notes written over. Still an About Very Good copy of a fragile work. In the striking original constructivist wrappers by Boris Efimov.

Epic poem by proletarian author and member of the far left Litfront faction Aleksandr Bezymenskii devoted to the Komsomol (abbreviation of the Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodyozhi), the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, first established in 1918. All early editions of this collection are scarce in OCLC; NYPL, the Getty, and Illinois only of this edition as of April, 2015. ROWELL (The Russian Avant-Garde Book) 532.

Price: $450.00

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