Polonskaia, Elizaveta [The Clocks]. Chasy. 

Second edition.
Illustrations by N. Lapshin.

Moskva-Leningrad, GIZ, 1929.
12mo, 16 pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers.
In good condition, overall wear to covers and spine, small tears to spine, owner marks in ink to some pages.

This poem about clocks was written by the female poet and translator Elizaveta Polonskaia (1890-1969), a member of the Serapion Brothers group (see Davis, Leslie Dorfman Serapion Sister: The Poetry of Elizaveta Polonskaja. 2001). Wolfgang Kasack, a German Slavic studies scholar and translator, described her poetry as 'clear and beautiful'. 'The Clocks' was set to music and became a children's opera by the composer and founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, Lyubov Streicher, in 1927.
The illustrations were created by Nikolai Lapshin (1888-1942), a prominent artist of the Leningrad school who began as a Futurist and Rayonist. He was a member of the Unblooded Murder group (with Vera Ermolaeva, Mikhail Le Dentu, and Iliazd), the Union of Youth (alongside Olga Rozanova, Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin, and others), and the 'Four Arts' art association. Lapshin was one of the few Russian artists who worked for the Limited Editions Club (LEC) and created artworks for the LEC's 1934 edition of 'The Travels of Marco Polo'. He died in besieged Leningrad.
The first edition of the poem was published in 1925 with different illustrations and cover. A new edition with revised cover and illustrations appeared in 1927.

Vek Russkogo Knizhnogo Iskusstva, p.128. 

We couldn't trace any copies of the 1927 or 1929 editions via OCLC. Three libraries in the USA hold the 1925 edition.