Vladimir Mayoakovsky Selected Works in Three Volumes, Volumes I, II and Three (Selected Verse; Longer Poems; Plays, Articles, Essays) (Thee Volumes)

Complete in three volumes.  All three volumes bound in different coloured cloth with gilt lettering front and spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  White silk ribbon markers bound in.  8vos.  Cloth on all three volumes very slightly rubbed at spine tips and a little shadowing to text block edges.  Internally neat. clean, bright and tight.  The boards on all three volumes have a slight bow and forward lean, especially the upper board on volume three. All three volumes in their original glossy dust wrappers, lightly shelf worn and gently bumped at edges with signs of compression (as if the books have been stored flat under a heavy weight).  

A hard to find complete set.  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Soviet poet and playwright.  During his early, pre-Revolution period he became renowned as a prominent figure in the Russian Futurist movement; he co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916).  A supporter of Lenin and associate of friends of Stalin, he death by apparent suicide in 1930 has been alleged – especially in later years – to be a sanctioned killing, allegations associated to attempts to discredit Stalin.