Lot 1021: KHLEBNIKOV, VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH. 1885-1922.- Zapisnaya knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Sobral i snabdil primechaniyami A. Kruchenykh [Velimir Khlebnikov's Notebook. Collected and Supplied with Notes by A. Krchenykh]. Moscow : Izdanie Vserossiiskogo

Zapisnaya knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Sobral i snabdil primechaniyami A. Kruchenykh [Velimir Khlebnikov's Notebook. Collected and Supplied with Notes by A. Krchenykh]. Moscow : Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 8vo. 32 pp. Portrait frontiispiece. Original tan wrappers designed by Valentina Nikiforovna KULAGINA-KLUTSIS. Light wear and toning to wrappers. RARE POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN FUTURIST WRITER, EDITED BY HIS FELLOW ADVOCATE OF THE 'TRANSRATIONAL' KRUCHENYKH . One of 2000 copies. Khlebnikov was a seminal figure in the Russian Futurist movement and one of the most influential Russian poets of the modern age. In 1912 he coined the neologism Budetlyane (Men of the Future), encapsulating the Futurist ethos in one word. His fellow Futurist poet Aleksei Kruchenykh edited this notebook after his friend suffered a stroke and tragically died at the age of 37. MoMA 598.