Research Catalog

Title

Majakowski--The celluloid heart = Vladimir Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ--Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ : poter︠i︡anna︠i︡a lenta.

Author

Brik, Lili ︠I︡Urʹevna.

Publication

New York : Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930.
• Kaldewey Press. prt

Description

13 sheets (5 folded) ([36] p.) : mounted ill.; 26 cm., in can 40 cm. in diam.

Series Statement

Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey ; v. 8

Uniform Title

• Vladimir Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ--Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ. English & Russian
• Edition Kaldewey ; v. 8

Alternative Title

• Vladimir Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ--Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ.
• Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ.
• Celluloid heart.
• Possessed by film.

Genre/Form

• Copy art.
• Metal.
• Bookbinding (Binding) – Metal cases.

Note

• "70 copies and 10 special copies"--Colophon.
• One of 70 copies issued unbound. There were also 4 copies reserved for the printer; cf. First five years.
• Caption title: Possessed by film : the story line / from the recollections of Lilja Brik = Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ : soderzhanie kartiny / zapisannoe po pam︠i︡ati Lileĭ Brik.
• "First edition. This is the story of Majakowski's moving picture of 1918, destroyed by fire in the 1930ies, as recollected by his life-long companion Lilia Brik"--First five years.
• "Printed in the tower of Poestenkill, New York."
• Consists of 7 bifolia of beige Richard de Bas paper (the first and last blank, not counted in collation) and 8 transparent overlay sheets (printed on one side only).
• Illustrations: 10 mounted photomechanical prints : color xerography, monochrome ; various sizes. Reproduced from frames of the original negative of the film showing Mayakovsky and Brik.
• Accompanied by a copy (1 film reel : b&w ; 16mm., approx. 15 ft.) of the sole surviving fragment of the film, which was produced by Neptun, directed by Nikandr Turkin from a scenario by Mayakovsky, and starred Mayakovsky, Brik, Margerita Kibalchich and A. Rebikova. Cf. Kino / Jay Leyda. 3rd ed. 1983. p. 424.

Indexed In (note)

• Kaldewey Press. First five years
• Dubansky & Strauss. Kaldewey Press

Language (note)

• Text in Russian, with English translation printed in red on transparent overlays.

Binding (note)

• Ordinary copies: Issued unbound, in beige Richard de Bas wrappers with illustrated paper label; inserted in a particleboard matrix together with the film, in a 35mm. film can with label on top cover. Labels read: Zakovanna︠i︡a filmoĭ / Lili Brik, Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1984 93-510

LCCN

86170153

OCLC

• 15220768
• NYPG94-B28

Author

Brik, Lili ︠I︡Urʹevna.

Title

Majakowski--The celluloid heart = Vladimir Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ--Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ : poter︠i︡anna︠i︡a lenta.

Imprint

New York : Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey, 1984.

Series

Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey ; v. 8

Edition Kaldewey ; v. 8

Indexed In:

Kaldewey Press. First five years, p. 43

Dubansky & Strauss. Kaldewey Press, p. 104-105

Language

Text in Russian, with English translation printed in red on transparent overlays.

Binding

Ordinary copies: Issued unbound, in beige Richard de Bas wrappers with illustrated paper label; inserted in a particleboard matrix together with the film, in a 35mm. film can with label on top cover. Labels read: Zakovanna︠i︡a filmoĭ / Lili Brik, Ma︠i︡akovskiĭ.

Added Author

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930. Zakovanna︠i︡a filʹmoĭ.

Kaldewey Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1984 93-510