After making a set of five Kharms’ books, Karasik created this set of Phaedra and Sybil, two books with poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) taken from her collection Posle Rossii 1922–1925 [After Russia 1922–1925], published in Paris in 1928. Both books are bound in plain coloured paper covers, one grey and one black. They are kept in a three folded cream card cover lithographed in four colours. On the outside of this cover only Phaedra is mentioned. The contents of both books are mentioned on the inside flaps.

The text for Phaedra, poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, is written with a steel pen in black ink. The illustrations are three colour lithographs made with a brush. The book consists of 4 folded sheets (16 pages) bound in plain black paper covers. Karasik created a total of 30 copies, thus making an extra 5 besides the 25 copies for the set. Together with the fact that the cover

of the set only mentions Phaedra, this may indicate that initially there was to be no set but only a single book. On the half-title the artist has printed his initials MK a precursor of the name he later used when publishing. In addition to Leningrad, Moscow is also mentioned as publishing location.

The text for Sybil, poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, was written with steel pen in black ink. The illustrations are three colour lithographs made with a brush. Where as the illustrations for Phaedra are full coloured and possess a painterly quality, the line drawings Karasik made for Sybil emphasize drawing. The book consists of 5 folded sheets (20 pages), bound in plain grey paper covers. Also in this part of the diptych, the artist

printed his initials MK on the half-title. As publishing place only Leningrad is mentioned.