first edition
1923 · Paris
by ILIAZD [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH]
Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. With: Ledentu le Phare: poeme dramatique en zaoum. Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923.
4to (185 x 135 mm) and 4to (190 x 140 mm). The first: Typography by Iliazd. Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by NAUM GRANOVSKII. The second: stapled, as issued. Together 2 volumes, housed in leather backed cloth folding case. The Edward Tufte copies, with his book label in the protective case.
FIRST EDITION OF ILIAZD'S SCARCE MASTERPIECE, IN PRISTINE CONDITION, complete with the pamphlet laid-in. A "masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde" (Johnson, p.25). Iliazd's Lidantiu faram is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works. The text, its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark "a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments" (Isselbacher, p.37).
LIMITED EDITION, number 349 of 500 copies on papier Rubel. Although the edition is stated to be of 530 copies (including 30 on japon imperial), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up, and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed. Isselbacher and Le Gris-Bergmann Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p. 37; Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930, p. 440, no. 277; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein Libri cubisti 30. (2). (Inventory #: 410104)
4to (185 x 135 mm) and 4to (190 x 140 mm). The first: Typography by Iliazd. Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by NAUM GRANOVSKII. The second: stapled, as issued. Together 2 volumes, housed in leather backed cloth folding case. The Edward Tufte copies, with his book label in the protective case.
FIRST EDITION OF ILIAZD'S SCARCE MASTERPIECE, IN PRISTINE CONDITION, complete with the pamphlet laid-in. A "masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde" (Johnson, p.25). Iliazd's Lidantiu faram is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works. The text, its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark "a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments" (Isselbacher, p.37).
LIMITED EDITION, number 349 of 500 copies on papier Rubel. Although the edition is stated to be of 530 copies (including 30 on japon imperial), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up, and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed. Isselbacher and Le Gris-Bergmann Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p. 37; Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930, p. 440, no. 277; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein Libri cubisti 30. (2). (Inventory #: 410104)
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