Kharms, Daniil [The Game]. Igra. 

Illustrations by M. Miturich and I. Bruni. 

Moskva, Izdatel’stvo “Detskii mir” Ministerstva Kul’tury RSFSR, 1962. 
8vo, [32] pp.incl.wr., ill.  

In original pictorial wrappers. 
Near very good condition, lightly worn, minor tears to back cover.

First book by Kharms published after his rehabilitation. The only edition with these illustrations. 

This collection features 11 poems by Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), one of Russia’s most prominent avant-garde and absurdist writers, and a founder of the Oberiu collective. His brief but brilliant life ended tragically: following his second arrest in August 1941, Kharms feigned insanity to avoid execution. Nevertheless, a military tribunal ordered him confined to the psychiatric ward of the 'Kresty' prison, where he died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad. He was officially exonerated in July 1960, following a request by his sister. This edition is the first official publication of Kharms’s works following his death.
The book’s illustrations were created by two artists. May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925–2008), a graduate of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, was the nephew of Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov and son of avant-garde artist Vera Khlebnikova. He was later awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. The second illustrator, Ivan Bruni (1920–1995), was the son of avant-garde painter and graphic artist Lev Bruni, and the grandson of Symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont, a key figure of Russia’s Silver Age. Bruni studied at the Art Academy of Latvia and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, where he trained under Vladimir Favorsky. From 1959 to 1962, he served as the chief artist of the Detsky Mir publishing house. 
Interestingly, it is likely that for the poem ‘Chto Eto Bylo’ (‘What Was That’), the artists created a portrait of Kharms himself.

We couldn’t trace any copy of this edition in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.