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Facsimile, in publisher's cloth case and slipcase. Sofia: Bulgarski pisatel, 1986. Quarto. Introductory text and the two supplements bound in cloth; 83, [5] pp. The facsimile issues are housed in an attached cloth case. With Milev's portrait pasted to the case cover. Some rust to staples of issues; boards a touch distended; still a very good set. Uncommon complete facsimile of this most influential journal of Bulgarian and international modernist and avantgarde art and literature, comprising the ten issues of vol. 1 (1924). The content of the first issue for vol. 2 (1925), which remained unpublished, as well as of the special issue commemorating May 1, 1925 is reproduced within the accompanying book. 'Plamak' was founded and edited by Geo Milev in conjunction with the poets Lamar and Khristo Yasenov. Milev had previously edited the Bulgarian modernist journal "Vezni" (1919-1922) after returning from Berlin, where he convalesced after WWI and came into contact with contemporary art movements such as Franz Pfemfert's "Aktion" and Herwarth Walden's "Sturm". One of 1617 copies published. Jacono 17. …

Sofia, 1986, reprint of the periodical Plamuk, Complete set ( 10 numbers in 8 physical issues). (from January to December 1924) . Small in-4°, issues of ca. 48 pp, kept in a red cloth box together with the reprint of the Second Year (1925) Plamuk Godina II; with the Plamuk 1 May issue. Published with a commentary by Georgi Markov (Not the Bulgarian author who was murdered by the Bulgarian Secret Police in London in 1978 ?). Text in Bulgarian. Reprint of a Bulgarian avant-garde periodical with surrealist tendencies. The periodical reacted against the Constructivist movement.…

Sofia: Vezni [Pridvornata Pechatnitsa], 1920. Octavo (25 × 16.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [31] pp., [1] frontis three-color linocut by the author. Printed on laid paper. Wrappers lightly discolored; some expert paper repair to edges and spine extremities; overall about very good. First edition of this book of expressionist and anti-militaristic poems by Geo Milev (1895-1925), perhaps the leading Bulgarian literary critic and poet of his time. The work was also his first published volume of poems. Milev was also active in the visual arts; this volume, the third title in his series of "Books for bibliophiles" features a striking linocut in black, blue, and bright orange. With handsomely executed typography, printed in green and black. "In Bulgaria, Expressionism appeared as a result of the experience in the war which led to a turning point in the individual consciousness of the intellectuals in conjunction with a sharpened social and spiritual crisis. The Expressionist artistic form developed by Geo Milev during and after the war proved that the moment had come for a new way of combining the 'native' with the 'foreign'" (Evelina Kelbetcheva, "Between Apology and Denial: Bulgarian Culture during World War I," in Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites, eds, European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918, p. 235). Milev began his career as a translator and popularizer of Western poets and philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. He became a leading propagandist of modernist and avant-garde tendencies in Bulgaria and edited the eponymous avant-garde and modernist journal, which appeared from 1919 to 1921. By the early 1920s, his own work became increasingly political and in 1924 he began publishing the leftist journal "Plamak" (Flame). Milev began to provoke scrutiny by the authorities and was evidently killed during an interrogation after the bombing of a Sofia cathedral by communists. Scarce, with KVK, OCLC showing copies at New York Public Library and Chicago only (both rebound as part of a convolute?).…