BELSKY, L. P. (Trans.). I. M. Maisky. И. M, Ма́йский, (Preface). BUBRIKH, D. V. (Edited), FILONOV, P. (illustrated).

Original decorated boards, lithographed decorated dust-wrapper, profusely illustrated. Lithographed plates, other b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece. An illustrated edition in the very rare original lithographed dust-wrapper. Original purple decorated cloth. Text in Russian. Appears unused. Book in excellent condition. Fragile and very scarce dust-wrapper in very good condition with just a little chipping at edges, small piece torn at spine head with minor loss. An important edition published by Academia with the dust-wrapper, plates and b/w illustrations by 13 members (Masters of Analytic Art) of the school of Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov, Russian Futurist painter and graphic artist of ".. extraordinary originality" John Milner pp148-150. Executed under Filonov's direct supervision, art work by Alisa Poret, Mihail Petrovich Tsybasov, Tatyana Glebova amongst others. “In 1933 the Soviet publishing house Academia produced a remarkable volume: an edition of the folk epic Kalevala...” (Milner-Gulland, 1983). From the library of Alan Bird, Russian art historian.