PHOTOGRAPHS, RARE BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS: Rare books, including Russian Books, Rare & Lifetime, Works on Paper, Photographs, including vintage photographs by Alexander Rodchenko, Kate Moss photographed by David Sims, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 12:30
Prev Lot Next Lot

MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.

Lot 1008
200250
Enquire
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR (1893-1930) Mysteriya-Buff: geroicheskoe, epicheskoe i satiricheskoe izobrazhenie nashey epokhi, sdelannoe Vladimirom Mayakovskim. 1918 god. Tri deystviya. Pyat’ kartin ['Mystery-Bouffe: a Heroic, Epic and Satirical Representation of Our Epoch…']. Petrograd: IMO, 1918. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.
78, [2] pp.; 27 cm. Limited to 5000 copies. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers designed by V. Mayakovsky. Tears and losses to the wrappers and spine (rear wrapper lacking approximately one quarter), text block in good condition. Stamp of a deaccessioned library on the final page, shelf numbers on the front wrapper. Dedication to Lilya Brik on p. 3. First edition of the first version of the play, written for the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Bibliography: Turchinskiy, p. 344; Lesman, no. 1474.