Russian Avant-Garde.- Aseev (Nikolai Nikolaievich) Zor [Vision], first edition, [one of 200 copies], hand-printed, lithographed text throughout by Mariya Sinyakova, some age-toning and light creasing, original lithographed wrappers also by Sinyakova, hinges with old reinforcements, some browning and a few minor marks, slightly chipped at edges, preserved loose in later cloth-backed patterned board sleeve, [MoMA 87], Moscow, Knigoizdatel'stvo Liren' (printed in Kharkov), 1914; Stal'noi solovei [Steel Nightingale], first edition, MAF Seriia poetov no.2, light, even browning throughout, hinges reinforced, original wrappers printed with MAF logo, preserved loose in printed card sleeve, Moscow, Izd. VKhUTEMAS, 1922, 8vo (2)
⁂ The first is one of Aseev's zaum (transrational) poems, lithographically replicating text apparently handwritten by Aseev and reminiscent of the handwritten mimeographed cubo-futurist pamphlets of Kruchenykh, utilising unusually positioned letter.
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