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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Traktat o sploshchom neprilichii. [A Treatise on total
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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Traktat o sploshchom neprilichii. [A Treatise on total Obscenity.] Tbilisi: 41° [1919-20]. 8° (220 mm x 167 mm). Typographic design by I. Zdanevich. Original printed wrappers by Zdanevich (slightly soiled, loose with torn spine). Provenance: Igor Terent’ev (presentation copy inscription dated 21 April 1920 to:) – Nina Vasil’eva (1889-1979, poet).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Nina Vasil’eva. With typographic design attributed to Il’ia Zdanevich. RARE: one of 300 copies only; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction (Christie’s, 29 November 2007, lot 262). 41°, Modernism Inc., 48; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 255-256; Tarasenkov p.368.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Nina Vasil’eva. With typographic design attributed to Il’ia Zdanevich. RARE: one of 300 copies only; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction (Christie’s, 29 November 2007, lot 262). 41°, Modernism Inc., 48; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 255-256; Tarasenkov p.368.
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TERENT’EV, Igor Gerasimovich (1892-1937). Traktat o sploshchom neprilichii. [A Treatise on total Obscenity.] Tbilisi: 41° [1919-20]. 8° (220 mm x 167 mm). Typographic design by I. Zdanevich. Original printed wrappers by Zdanevich (slightly soiled, loose with torn spine). Provenance: Igor Terent’ev (presentation copy inscription dated 21 April 1920 to:) – Nina Vasil’eva (1889-1979, poet).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Nina Vasil’eva. With typographic design attributed to Il’ia Zdanevich. RARE: one of 300 copies only; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction (Christie’s, 29 November 2007, lot 262). 41°, Modernism Inc., 48; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 255-256; Tarasenkov p.368.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TERENT’EV to Nina Vasil’eva. With typographic design attributed to Il’ia Zdanevich. RARE: one of 300 copies only; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction (Christie’s, 29 November 2007, lot 262). 41°, Modernism Inc., 48; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 255-256; Tarasenkov p.368.
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