[Russian Futurism] Burlyuk David and Nikolai; Vladimir Mayakovskii; Aleksei Kruchenikh, a.o. Dokhlaya luna

Sbornik edinstvennykh futuristov mira!! Poetov Gileya. [The Croaked Moon. Collection of the Sole Futurists of the World!! The Gileya Poets: verse, prose, essays, drawings, etchings.] Moscow, Futuristy Gileya, 1914 (=1913!). Edited by Shershenevich. 119,(2),(7) p. (catalogue), 2 colour etchings (red and green), 16 lithographed plates, 3 illustrations in text. First edition, but with wrapper and title page of the second edition (text and illustrations corresponding to the first). 8vo (194 x 150 mm).

Lacking spine, wr. sl. chipped, a few pages loose(ning), occas. small marginal stains. Overall an excellent and rare complete copy with both etchings present. Very early Russian Futurist publication with contributions by its most important artists. "[The plates are] profoundly sophisticated and informed adaptations of the central principles and devices of Scythian expression." (The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.37).