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Description: LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964; illustrator) and Aleksei Eliseevich KRUCHENIKH. Pomada. [Pomade.] Moscow: G.L. Kuz'min and S.D. Dolinskii, 1913.

8° (152 x 109mm). Lithographed text and 11 lithographed illustrations, 7 of these mounted on gold-leaf paper. (Small loss in margins of gold-leaf). Original glossy red wrappers, lithographed illustration and title mounted on front cover, and a further label mounted on the back cover (re-backed and repaired, light wear).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGH-POINT OF EXPERIMENTATION -- ONE OF THE BEST REALIZED RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE BOOKS, in which text and illustrations work closely to unlock meaning. Pomada marks the first publication of a transrational, 'zaum', poem -- Kruchenikh's radical method to free Russian poetry from convention. With 11 lithographs by Larionov, in his Neo-Primitivist style and on the cusp of his move to Rayism. RARE: one of only 480 copies. Hellyer 239; The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.67.

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