Mayakovsky Vladimir Herbert Marshall (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Edge wear to jacket, jacket spine lightly foxed. Page ridges stained. 1965 Hard Cover. 432 pp. Vladimir Mayakovsky, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, (born July 7 [July 19, New Style], 1893, Bagdadi, Georgia, Russian Empire - died April 14, 1930, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. Mayakovsky, whose father died while Mayakovsky was young, moved to Moscow with his mother and sisters in 1906. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and was repeatedly jailed for subversive activity. He started to write poetry during solitary confinement in 1909. On his release he attended the Moscow Art School and joined, with David Burlyuk and a few others, the Russian Futurist group and soon became its leading spokesman. In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu ("A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"), and Mayakovsky's poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content. His poetic monodrama Vladimir Mayakovsky was performed in St. Petersburg in 1913. Between 1914 and 1916 Mayakovsky completed two major poems, "Oblako v shtanakh" (1915; "A Cloud in Trousers") and "Fleyta pozvonochnik" (written 1915, published 1916; "The Backbone Flute"). Both record a tragedy of unrequited love and express the author's discontent with the world in which he lived. Mayakovsky sought to "depoetize" poetry, adopting the language of the streets and using daring technical innovations. Above all, his poetry is declamatory, for mass audiences.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 432 pages. Ex-university library marks, sunned spine and cover edges; a good tight binding, pages yellowing; good otherwise. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 217514.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Red cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on front, corners sharp if a touch rubbed, owner's label on pastedown, lightly age-toned text-block, no annotations, binding tight. Dust jacket missing. ; 8.12 x 5.12 x 1.12; 432 pages.

Revised edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered dull gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains frontispiece, (iv), 157 pp with 9 monochrome illustrations throughout. Ink name of the author 'Gordon MacKay' to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. Edition originale. In-8 relié pleine toile sous jaquette, 432 pages.