Russian Futurism: A History

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,467pp; 16 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper which is lightly rubbed and worn, with a few tiny nicks at head and heel of spine panel; Very Good. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover. Tarn has also made a very few faint (and easily erasable) pencil marginal marks to the text.

Seminal study of the futurist movements in art and literature in Russia, from their beginnings up to their suppression around 1930. (truncated) Markov (d.2013) was the long-time head of the Department of Slavic Language & Literature at UC Berkeley. (Inventory #: 85586)