Polyanovsky, M. Mayakovsky as Film Actor (Mayakovsky kinoakter) / edited by Lev Kassil, 1940. In Russian. First edition.

Поляновский, Макс Лазаревич. Маяковский киноактер / под редакцией Л. Кассиля.
Москва : Госкиноиздат, 1940. 88 с., ил., портр. ; 19,3×13,7 см.
Издательская иллюстрированная обложка. Тираж 5 000 экз.
Редактор Т. Урусова. 
Фотографии с кинокадров публикуются в книге впервые.
Переплет хороший: обложка пожелтела, лёгкие потёртости; корешок с утратами. Блок хороший: бумага незначительно пожелтела, иллюстрации и текст чистые.
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Polyanovsky, Max. Mayakovsky kinoakter [Mayakovsky as Film Actor] / edited by Lev Kassil.
Moscow : Goskinoizdat (State Cinema Publishing House), 1940. 88 pp., illustrated with photographs and portraits ; 19.3×13.7 cm.
Publisher's illustrated paper wrappers. Print run 5,000 copies. 
Binding good: covers yellowed with light wear; spine with losses and tears. Text block good: paper with light age-toning; photographs and text clean throughout.

Few aspects of Vladimir Mayakovsky's creative legacy are as little known as his brief career as a film actor in 1918, when he appeared in three silent films for a private Moscow studio. Max Polyanovsky's investigation, the only monograph devoted to this subject, grew out of a chance conversation he had with Mayakovsky himself in Simferopol in July 1926 — the same occasion that produced the frontispiece photograph, taken by Polyanovsky and showing Mayakovsky in a characteristic pose. In the conversation Mayakovsky recalled his film work of eight years earlier as all but forgotten even then. Polyanovsky spent the following years reconstructing the story from film stills, testimony, and archival documents; the resulting book was published a decade after the poet's suicide in 1930 and five years after Stalin's pronouncement that made Mayakovsky the canonical poet of the Soviet epoch.
The three films covered are: "Baryshnya i khuligan" (The Young Lady and the Hooligan, 1918), in which Mayakovsky played the hooligan and also wrote the screenplay — the only one of the three films to survive; "Ne dlya deneg rodivshiysya" (Not Born for Money, 1918), an adaptation of Jack London's "Martin Eden" in which he played Martin Eden; and "Zakovannaya filmoy" (Shackled by Film, 1918), in which he played an enchanted artist and also wrote the screenplay. The book reproduces photographs from these films that had never previously been published. The edition was prepared under the editorial supervision of Lev Kassil (1905-1970), a personal acquaintance of Mayakovsky and one of the leading Soviet writers of his generation.