1118 - Avant-garde - Russia - Svirsky, Aleksey I. (born Shimon-Dovid V. Svirsky). *Zapiski bosyaka* (Notes of a Vagabond). *Polnoe sobranie sochineniy*. (Complete Works). Volume 9 (of 10). Cover design by Stenberg. Moscow and Leningrad, Zemlya i fabrika, 1929. 261 pp., 1 leaf. 21 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated original cardboard binding (cover edges scuffed and with small tears).

Avant-garde - Russia - Svirsky, Aleksey I. (born Shimon-Dovid V. Svirsky). *Zapiski bosyaka* (Notes of a Vagabond). *Polnoe sobranie sochineniy*. (Complete Works). Volume 9 (of 10). Cover design by Stenberg. Moscow and Leningrad, Zemlya i fabrika, 1929. 261 pp., 1 leaf. 21 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated original cardboard binding (cover edges scuffed and with small tears). First edition. — One of 5,000 copies, only a portion of which were published in this cover. — The series of volumes brings together works by the Jewish-Soviet author that primarily address the lives of people in precarious circumstances on the margins of society. Early texts, influenced by Gorky, are supplemented by works from the Soviet era. In the late 1920s, the publishing house led by A. Lunacharsky sought to produce editions for its readers that featured relatively high-quality printing and exceptional—including avant-garde—design. The takeover by the State Publishing House in 1930 marked a significant change: neither the socially critical content of the volumes nor their design by the Stenberg brothers was valued in the years that followed. - Untrimmed. - Slightly discolored. *