Russian Avant-Garde.- Mayakovsky (Vladimir Vladimirovich) Fleita pozvonochnik. [The Backbone Flute.], first edition, one of 600 copies, neat inscription to head of title, original white wrappers lettered in black, spine and extremities neatly and sympathetically repaired and restored, browning, [MoMA 132-33], 8vo, Petrograd: "Vzyal," 1916.
⁂ The first edition of a major early work by Mayakovsky. A very good copy of this blasphemous, sexually-charged (and heavily censored) poem dedicated to Lilia Brik, the object of Mayakovsky's all-consuming passion. It is this poem that convinced Maxim Gorky of Mayakovsky's genius, and to champion him as Russia's greatest poet when most critics characterised him as a talentless charlatan.
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