Author: Rozanova, Olga: Kruchenykh, A.
Title: Chort i Rechetvortsy. (The Devil and the Wordmakers.)
Description: St. Petersburg,EUY, 1913. dark blue-grey wrappers decorated with a lithograph by Olga Rozanova. First edition; printed in 1000 copies; 227x165mm; pp.16; the text a polemical literary pamphlet by Kruchenykh (with Khlebnikov) against the Devil: the Russian symbolist school with its all pervading doom and death, never able to enter the land of 'the word as such' (Markov p204), his reign being ended by the Futurists headed by Kruchenykh with A Game in Hell, and Half Alive (both 1913). Spine partly split. Compton 1 p126, Hellyer 215, Bowlt?hernad 27 (ill.), Markov p204. Russian Avant Garde

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