Lugovskoi, Vladimir and Boris Titov (artist).

[TITOV DESIGN – RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE] Muskul: vtoraia kniga stikhov [The muscle: second volume of poems].

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Federatsiia", 1929. Octavo (16.4 × 12.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 119 pp. Frontis portrait of the author. About very good; Soviet bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; very light wear to spine extremities; small pencil mark to front wrapper. Item #P5273

First edition of this volume of poems by Vladimir Lugovskoi (1901–1957), a Soviet poet, member of RAPP – the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers – and a close friend of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Wrappers by Boris Titov (1897–1951), one of the most prolific and idiosyncratic Soviet graphic artists and book designers, who eventually transitioned from a constructivist style to a more conservative, art-deco-inspired manner in the mid-1930s. One of 2000 copies.

Not in Getty.

As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC show copies at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Columbia, NYPL, Michigan and Yale, as well as a photocopy at Stanford. The copy at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is marked a war loss.

Price: €250.00

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