Molodaya Gvardiya Your Guard #1 1929

Dated January 1929, this is the first volume of the bi-weekly magazine "Molodaya Gvardiya," a run of 15 000 copies. The journal for literature, arts, politics, and popular science, as stated in the heading, it includes mainly excerpts from literary prose and poetry. Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem is to be found in this issue alongside other numerous texts. The volume stands out with its Constructivist design by . N.V. Il'in. Fair condition, paper faded, tears on the edges, sporadic stains, covers torn off from the spine, pages loose, spin to be reinforced, cuts along the cover's edges, paper carbed. 112 pages.