First edition of Celan’s second collection of poems. Dedicated to his wife Gisèle, it is Celan’s first book to arise wholly from Paris.

Wilpert/Gühring 16.

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EHRENBURG, Il’ia Grigorievich.

Ogon’ [Fire].

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REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich.

Elektron.

First edition, one of only a small number of poetic works by Remizov, ‘the most original, many-sided, and accomplished modernist prose writer…, a writer who at best would score a succès d’estime with a select public and never gained international recognition’ (Terras, History of Russian Literature, p. 477).

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