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(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Oktyabr 1917-1918. Geroi i zhertvy revolutistii. [October 1917-1918: Heroes and Victims of the Revolution]. Complete with contents leaf and 18 lithographic illustrations: 4 by Kseniya Bogaslavskaya, 6 by Vladimir Kozlinskii, 5 by Ivan Puni and 3 by Sergei Makletsov. Folio, contents loose as issued in original portfolio printed in red and black, light rubbing to folds; lithographs uncommonly clean and free of spotting, soiling, or creasing. (IO). Petrograd: IZO Narkompros, [1918]
first edition in a superb state of preservation. This suite of Russian avant-garde propaganda prints was published to honor the first anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In typical agitprop style, the Heroes are the Worker, the Red Army Soldier, the Farm Laborer, the Sailor, the Seamstress, the Laundress, the Motor-Car Operator, the Telegraph Operator and the Railway Worker; the Victims are the Factory Owner, the Banker, the Landowner, the Kulak, the Baroness, the Priest, the Bureaucrat, the General and the Merchant. Mayakovsky provided a brief caption for each image. Rowell & Wye, page 180.
