[Rodchenko], Aseev, Nikolai

Izbran Stichi [Selected Verse 1912-22].

Moscow/Petersburg: Krug, 1923.

Illustrated with Constructivist letterpress covers by Aleksandr Rodchenko. 8vo, original printed wrappers, backstrip repaired, few creases and scattered light soiling. First edition. One of 3000 copies.  Cover design by Rodchenko, at the height of his career in abstract book design. Nikolai Nikolaievich Aseev (1889-1963), was an important futurist and later revolutionary romantic poet; he was also an important theoretician of poetics. This is a collection of his earliest and most experimental work. Hellyer 17. 

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Price: $1,200.00