Mayakovsky Smiles, Mayakovsky Laughs, Mayakovsky Jeers

Cover and illustration are by V. Mayakovsky, the most famous Soviet poet, one of the founders of Russian Futurism. It includes poems and passages from poems, ditties, epigrams and sketches, in which an angry satire is combined with cheerful humour, caustic and wicked mockery with heroic pathos and lyrical sincerity. Published by Gosizdat, 35 000 copies. Fair condition with rubbings on the cover, loss of paper alongside the edges. Handwritten note on a flyleaf, loss of paper on the inside on the cover. Small cancelled library stamp on the last page. 387 pages.