ESENIN, KLIUEV, MARIENGOF, et al.

Konnitsa bur'. Stikhi [Cavalry of the storms. Poems.]

[Moscow, M. T. A. Kh. S.,] 1920 [i.e. 1919]. 8vo, pp. [36]; some light browning, but a very good copy, stapled as issued in the original striking illustrated paper wrappers by Vasilii Kamardenkov, printed in red and black; in a cloth box. First edition, scarce, of an early Imagist anthology, published in December 1919, with contributions by Esenin, Mariengof, Gerasimov, Oreshin, Kliuev, and Ivnev. A second collection (‘vtoroi sbornik’) under the same title appeared in May 1920. Mariengof’s ‘Revolutionary March’ opens the collection, and he contributes three further poems; Esenin’s ‘Nebesnyi barabanshchik’ (‘Heavenly drummer’) is from a series of important mystical poems that would culminate in his famous ‘Pantokrator’.The Russian Avant-Garde Book 300; Russian Modernism 343; not in Hellyer, Kilgour or KvK. OCLC shows four copies (Waseda, Amherst, Harvard and New York Public Library), to which Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi (1918-1926) adds three more: National Library of Russia, Vladimir-Suzdal Art Museum-Reserve, and Library-Musuem of Ioseb Grishashvili (Tbilisi).

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