BLOK, Alexander Alexandrovich (author, 1880-1921) and ANNENKOV, Iurii Pavlovich (1889-1974, illustrator). Dvenadtsat. [The Twelve.] St. Petersburg: Alkonost, 1918. 2° (301 x 237mm). Complete with 87 numbered pages, 15 full-page illustrations and 9 vignettes all by Annenkov, all printed on thick paper. (Occasional light soiling, edges marbled.) Recent half leather, original printed wrappers probably from the first trade edition of the same year bound in (wrappers worn and with repaired tears).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 300 EXAMPLES, this one numbered 285 and initialled by Annenkov. Dvenadtsat is one of the most important poems in Russian, one of the first artistic responses to the October Revolution, and a masterpiece of book illustration. RARE: ABPC records not a single example selling at auction in over 30 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 170.
BLOK, Alexander Alexandrovich (author, 1880-1921) and ANNENKOV, Iurii Pavlovich (1889-1974, illustrator). Dvenadtsat. [The Twelve.] St. Petersburg: Alkonost, 1918. 2° (301 x 237mm). Complete with 87 numbered pages, 15 full-page illustrations and 9 vignettes all by Annenkov, all printed on thick paper. (Occasional light soiling, edges marbled.) Recent half leather, original printed wrappers probably from the first trade edition of the same year bound in (wrappers worn and with repaired tears).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 300 EXAMPLES, this one numbered 285 and initialled by Annenkov. Dvenadtsat is one of the most important poems in Russian, one of the first artistic responses to the October Revolution, and a masterpiece of book illustration. RARE: ABPC records not a single example selling at auction in over 30 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 170.
![BLOK, Alexander Alexandrovich (author, 1880-1921) and ANNENKOV, Iurii Pavlovich (1889-1974, illustrator). Dvenadtsat. [The Twelve.] St. Petersburg: Alkonost, 1918. 2° (301 x 237mm). Complete with 87 numbered pages, 15 full-page illustrations and 9 vignettes all by Annenkov, all printed on thick paper. (Occasional light soiling, edges marbled.) Recent half leather, original printed wrappers probably from the first trade edition of the same year bound in (wrappers worn and with repaired tears).](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5846855/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05841_0164_000(blok_alexander_alexandrovich_and_annenkov_iurii_pavlovich_dvenadtsat_t090436).jpg?maxwidth=3840)