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Stikhi o Rossii [Poems about Russia].

Berlin, “Epokha”, 1922.

12mo, pp. 50, [3]; a very good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers, some minor tears to edges.

£300

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First edition of these poems, written between 1904 and 1918.

Kilgour 190; Tarasenkov p. 53.

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