Turkul, A[nton] V[asil´evich], general (1892 - 1957)	Drozdovtsy v ognie. Zhivye rasskazy i materialy obrabotal Ivan Lukash. Belgrade, 1937. 324 p., [15 individual portraits, 9 group portraits], corrigenda slip inserted (missing in some copies known to cataloger.)	€750,00

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8vo, original covers designed by Evgenii Petrovich Vaschenko (1887-1979), Boris Kustodiev´s and Evgenii Lanceray´s pupil. Member of 'Treugol´nik' group, an associate of Nikolai Kul´bin, worked together with Vsevolod E.Meyerkhold for a short period in 1910.Exhibited at 'Impresionisty' exhibition in Wilno, 1909/1910 and at 'Treugol´nik-Venok-Stefanos' exhibition, Petersburg, 1910. VERY GOOD. VERY RARE. FIRST EDITION. Autographed to the mother of his army commander. Inscription in blue ink. Differs from all émigré editions, including 1948 Munich reprint, and all later Russian reissues printed from abridged 1948 Munich edition. This edition became a rare and sought after item already in the early 1950´s and by the end of 1950s not signed copies were selling for $100.00 and by more by Prince Nikolay Kudashev´s book store in New York. See: Leikind, O.L, et al. Khudozhniki russkogo Zarubezh´ia.1917-1939. Biograficheskii slovar´.(1999), p.194; Krusanov, A.V. Futuristicheskaia revoliutsiia.1917-1921. Kniga 2. M., NLO, 2003, p. 6.