STERN, Anatol — An Angelic Rude Guy [1928] [cover by Henryk Stażewski]

Warsaw, 1928. Published by Księgarnia F. Hoesicka. 15x20.5 cm, 30 pages, softcover. Good condition (minor paper loss on the cover, scuffing on the spine, slight soiling).

Second edition. A volume of futurist poems by Anatol Stern (1899–1968), a poet, prose writer, translator, critic, and screenwriter; one of the leading figures of Polish Futurism; and co-author, with Brunon Jasieński, of the manifesto “Nuż w bżuhu.” The cover was designed by Henryk Stażewski (1894–1988), one of the most important Polish avant-garde artists, a painter and art theorist, associated primarily with Constructivism and geometric abstraction.