(AVANT-GARDE, RUSSIAN.) Gontcharova, Natalia; and Rubakin, Alexander N. Gorod' : Stikhi [The City: Poems].

2088048: A RUSSIAN FUTURIST LANDMARK (AVANT-GARDE, RUSSIAN.) Gontcharova, Natalia; and Rubakin, Alexander N. Gorod' : Stikhi [The City: Poems]. Russian text. 8 plates and 40 text illustrations by Gontcharova. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor creasing at edges and spine ends; mostly unopened, clean tear across page 19, scattered very light foxing. Paris, 1920

scarce first edition. one of 325 copies, though this copy out-of-series. The poems reflect Rubakin's emotional state after the death of his wife as well as the celebration of urban life. The book is printed in facsimile directly from his manuscript because the Russian Futurist writers believed that "this spontaneous aspect of expression would be lost through mechanical printing"--From Manet to Hockney 58.