4to. 30 by 22.5 cm. 24 pp. Depicting Soviet children at various kinds of work and mature activities (architect, doctor, builder, crane operator, postman, driverg, sailor, pilot). Accompanied, and complemented, by verse of the great Soviet Futurist poet, Mayakovsky. Scarce, at least in West, with no copies located on OCLC FirstServe and also apparently not in Cotsen Collection at Princeton. Light wear to the wraps. View More...
Scarce libretto of a strange Futurist one act opera, with talking a tree (Euphobia), shrubs and airplanes among the characters, some of which are actually human --aviators, soldiers and natives -- even if they intone like actors in a Greek tragedy. This oddball propagandistic work, more an oratorio than opera, celebrates war ("sweet war"), aviation and territorial conquest -- the things that cast a spell on so many Futurists, and which were the essence of Fascism. Three copies located on OCLC of this libretto brochure, at Berkeley, Harvard, and one in Italy. (There are copies of the printed... View More...
