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KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir -- KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei (1886-1966, editor). Zapisnaia knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Moscow: Vsertossiiskii soiuz poetov, 1925. 8° (179 x 138mm). Portrait frontispiece. (Lightly yellowed.) Original wrappers designed by Valentina Kulagina-Klutsis (the spine strengthened with brown paper tape, light wear and light soiling). Provenance: 'V. Sh.' (blue stamp with monogram in red pen) -- Russian booksellers' small stamps on the rear cover. FIRST EDITION. MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, 598.

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KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir -- KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei (1886-1966, editor). Zapisnaia knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Moscow: Vsertossiiskii soiuz poetov, 1925. 8° (179 x 138mm). Portrait frontispiece. (Lightly yellowed.) Original wrappers designed by Valentina Kulagina-Klutsis (the spine strengthened with brown paper tape, light wear and light soiling). Provenance: 'V. Sh.' (blue stamp with monogram in red pen) -- Russian booksellers' small stamps on the rear cover. FIRST EDITION. MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, 598.

KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei. Novii Esenin. O pervom tome Sobraniia stikhotvorenii. Moscow: for the author, 1926. 8° (190 x 136mm). (Margins evenly yellowed.) Original printed wrappers reproducing a portrait by Valentina Kulagina (wrappers detached and split at the spine, and with some chips). Provenance: Aleksei Kruchenykh (pencilled inscription dated April 1965 to:) -- ?Sheremetev. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY KRUCHENYKH. MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, 648.