1079 - Avant-garde - Russia - Kusikov, Aleksandr B. *Iskander* (The Book of Alexander). Cover design featuring a mounted portrait panel and four additional full-page color illustrations by Vera Aleksandrova. Moscow, Imazhinisti, 1921–1922. 7 leaves, 33 x 26.5 cm. Color-illustrated cardboard binding (slightly stained and dusty, crease mark on corner, small tear in the cover paper, scratch marks on the back cover).

Avant-garde - Russia - Kusikov, Aleksandr B. *Iskander* (The Book of Alexander). Cover design featuring a mounted portrait panel and four additional full-page color illustrations by Vera Aleksandrova. Moscow, Imazhinisti, 1921–1922. 7 leaves, 33 x 26.5 cm. Color-illustrated cardboard binding (slightly stained and dusty, crease mark on corner, small tear in the cover paper, scratch marks on the back cover). Published in the year of the first edition (a second edition was likely printed from remaining stock). - MoMA, 329. - Hellyer, 739. - One of 500 copies, most of which are unnumbered; this copy is personalized on the dedication page. Charity edition “to benefit the starving.” In this modern adaptation, a Persian poem about Alexander the Great became the “Poem of Myself.” Printed by the 7th Printing House of the Moscow City Soviet (formerly owned by S. Mamontov). After the edition was published, the poet—who had been publishing with the Russian Imagists since 1919—emigrated to France. The artist V. Aleksandrova, a student of N. Udal’cova and A. Drevin, illustrated several of Kusikov’s editions. – Some (finger) stains. *