text by SELVINSKY, Ilya Lvovich (Russian, 1899-1968) Zapiski poeta [Poet s Notes]. Moscow and Leningrad, GIZ, 1928. 12mo (173 x 127 mm). 94 pages. Original two-color photomontage wrappers designed by El Lissitzky. A book of autobiographical poetic novel and poems by Ilya Selvinsky. Bears various gifting inscriptions on title page. Original wrappers restored and reinforced.

LOT NOTES
To illustrate the wrapper of this rare constructivist book, Lissitzky used his double exposed photograph of the Dadaist Hans Arp, shot during their collaboration on The Isms of Art, 1914-1924 in 1925.