1073 - Avant-garde - Russia - Kirsanov, Semen I. *Poema o robote* (*Poem About the Robot*). Constructivist designs for the cover (Mechislav Dobrokovsky) and the dust jacket (Lev Smolyansky). Moscow, Sovetsky pisatel', 1935. 55 pp. 25 x 18 cm. Original cloth binding with illustrated silver title embossing and illustrated dust jacket (cover has water stains and small areas of missing cloth; dust jacket has been reattached and partially repaired).

Avant-garde - Russia - Kirsanov, Semen I. *Poema o robote* (*Poem About the Robot*). Constructivist designs for the cover (Mechislav Dobrokovsky) and the dust jacket (Lev Smolyansky). Moscow, Sovetsky pisatel', 1935. 55 pp. 25 x 18 cm. Original cloth binding with illustrated silver title embossing and illustrated dust jacket (cover has water stains and small areas of missing cloth; dust jacket has been reattached and partially repaired). First edition. - Theater director M. Rozovskij called Kirsanov a master and an aesthete “who had become Sovietized in the spirit of Mayakovsky.” The futurist and LEF contributor Kirsanov wrote several “great” poems in the early 1930s: the metallically gleaming robot in this book can not only work but is also operational in literary, artistic, musical, and dance contexts, as well as suitable for war. Written during a transitional period when cadres, rather than technology, were increasingly regarded as the decisive factor, this poem by the “verse artist” was received by contemporary critics with a certain degree of evasion. Printed on heavy paper at the 39th International Printing Plant of Mosoblpoligraf. — Slightly browned, with a moisture stain running through the lower corner. *