Avant-garde - Russia Blok, Aleksandr Dvenádtsat (The Twelve). 3rd edition. With 14 full-page illustrations, 9 vignettes, title page and publisher's signet (both repeated) after pen and ink drawings by Yuri Annenkov. Peterburg, Alkonost, 1918. 61 (3) pages. Gr.-4° (33:25 cm). Original publisher's brochure with illustrated title using the title vignette and the publisher's signet in red and black. Rowell, M. and D. Wye. The Russian Avant Garde Book 1910-1934, p. 171 - Bowlt, J. Hernad, B. Aus vollem Hals. Russische Buchillustration und Typographie 1900-1930, p. 43 - Third edition, published in the year of the first edition, of A. Blok's famous revolutionary poem about the march of 12 Red Army soldiers through Petrograd, expressively illustrated by Yuri Annenkov, in part already with constructivist verve. - A copy with older restoration: cover and title page with additions in the margins, spine with small losses at the ends, the sidebar of some leaves consolidated with adhesive tape, paper browned. {Third imprint of Blok's famous revolutionary poem about the march of 12 Red Army soldiers through Petrograd, illustrated by Juri Annenkow in expressionist and constructivst manner}. Present imprint was published in the year of the first edition. - A copy with older restoration: cover and title page with restored faults at margins, top and bottom of spine with small faults, fore edges of some leaves consolidated with adhesive tape, paper time-stained. This lot is taxed. The hammer price is subject to a 24.95% buyer's premium and the final invoice amount is subject to 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, silkscreens, offset prints, photographs) in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 24.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offsetprints and Photographs) on the final invoice amount in the European Union.