Aseev [Shtal´baum], Nikolai Nikolaevich (1889 - 1963) Siniakova, Mariia Mikhailovna (1898 - 1989), artist	Oksana. [M., Tsentrifuga,] 1916. 85, [1p.]	€1500,00

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8vo, original publisher´s boards in red and orange designed by Mariia Siniakova. Custom made box with leather label and tooling. A small piece of title page´s left upper corner (with Aseev´s signature?) removed with a razor blade by previous owner. Traces of signature still present. It was a common practice in Russia to remove all owner´s and authors inscriptions from title page when book was sold to state owned antiquarian book shop or to a private book dealer. Some soiling on front cover. Slightely chipped spine. Attractive large size 'Tsentrifuga' publishers logo on back cover. Publishing house 'Tsentrifuga' rubber stamp from 1916 or 1917 with text 'Tsiena etoi knigi povyshena na 100%' (For the image see: Pictorial Library File). Pre WW II Lenkogiz rubber stamp with rubber price marked '5 rub.', pre WW II 'Knizhnaia lavka pisatelei' rubber stamp with 'fixed' price on back cover. Post WW II personal censorial rubber stamp of Moscow antiquarian shop´s commodity researcher next to pre WW II rubber stamp. GOOD TO VERY GOOD. FIRST EDITION. According to Wolfgang Kasack 'Oksana' is the most important collection of poems in studies on Nikolai Aseev´s early poetry.'Oksana' was Nikolai Aseev´s turning point from Symbolism movement to Futurism. Aseev was the founder of 'Lirika' poetry group (1913) and Lirika cooperative publishing enterprise (1913), one he formed with a group of seven fellow poets. When Lirikia disbanded, Aseev joined the Futurist group Tsentrifuga, which jettisoned tradition in favor of innovation in style and subject. He was one of the founders of Tsentrifuga publishing house (1914), which became home for many major publications of Russian Futurists. Starting from 1914 Akseev is a member of Sergei Bobrov and Boris Pasternak group and the same year he becomes closely associated with Vladimir Maiakovskii and Velemir Khlebnikov. On Oksana (Kseniia Mikhailovna Siniakova), Mariia Mikhailovna Siniakova´s sister, see: Andrei Krusanov Futuristicheskaia Revoliutsiia 1917 - 1921. Kniga 2 [...] pp. 372, 567, 573, 578, index--under Aseeva, K.M. (Siniakova, K.M.) Not in NYPL Slavonic Collection, Rare Books Room; Getty Research Institute or British Library. See: Tarasenkov; Kasack, Wolfgang В. Leksikon russkoi literatury XX veka. = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917. — М., 1996. (see also 1976 and 1986 German editions), Wytrzens (1975 and 1982), Terras, Viktor Handbook of Russian Literature [...],Markov, Vladimir Russian Futurism [...]; RSSPP, vol. 2; Andrei Krusanov Futuristicheskaia Revoliutsiia 1917 - 1921. Kniga 2 [...] pp.198, 234,242, 244-246.