Novaya Troya : Stikhotvoreniya (The New Troy : Poems)

Near fine condition without any visible defects, losses, remarks and stains. Minor creases across cover corners, minor chipping along bottom edge of front cover, restored broken off small piece of upper outer corner of back cover, slightly damaged spine ends, cover shows slight soiling mainly to the edges; internally previous owners inscription on the fly-leaf. 

Publisher’s constructivist book cover designed by graphic artist Nikolai Kupreyanov (1894-1933), who was also engaged in book graphic art. Member of the Society of Easel Artists OST and the Society of Four Arts. Kupreyanov began as a master of wood engraving. In early creative works he was under the influence of cubism and futurism (1915–1922).  Since mid 1920s he left cubism and worked in graphic art preferring india ink and watercolor drawings. He was considered one of the virtuosic and significant graphic artists of 1920s–1930s. 

Lazar Berman (1894-1980) was Russian Soviet poet, writer, journalist. Together with Innokenty Oksenov and Konstantin Derzhavin he established publishing house “Ėrato”, under which his current the third and the last collection of poems was published. It includes verses dedicated to Fyodor Sologub, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Viktor Shklovsky. The poems prompted sharp criticism of Valery Bryusov, who had called them old-fashioned and cacophonic, and Vladislav Khodasevich’s, who had said “Infant Berman’s rhymes”. Subsequently turned to the prose, and had became popular children's author.