(RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE) Burliuk David and Dreier Katherine Bur

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(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Burliuk, David and Dreier, Katherine. Burliuk. 53 black-and-white illustrations by Burliuk, selected by Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. 4to, publisher's red cloth, spine tips and corners slightly rubbed, ex-library copy with number stencilled to lower spine, but no other indications; Burliuk studio rubberstamp on front free endpaper. (IO). New York: Société Anonyme and Color and Rhyme, 1944

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signed presentation copy with an original drawing. Warmly inscribed to artist/curator Hermon More, identified as Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, on front free endpaper and dated June 7, 1951, Hampton Bays, Long Island, NY. Above his inscription, Burliuk has written a two-line quote from Blake from which emanates a hand holding aloft a single open eye, suggesting the "double vision" so quoted. An important work on the Ukranian artist David Burliuk that examines his work in Russia and subsequent career in the United States after emigrating in 1922.