LIVSHITS, Benedikt Konstantinovich.
Krotonskii polden’ [High Noon at Kroton].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1928.
8vo, pp. 137, [3]; a very good copy, uncut and partially unopened in the original printed wrappers, soiled and chipped; internally clean and fresh.
First collected edition. Livshits’ fifth and final book of verse, after which he turned increasingly to translation work.
It contains all his earlier collections: Fleita Marsiia (The Flute of Marsias, 1911), Volch’e solntse (Wolves’ Sun, 1914), and Patmos (1926), together with Bolotnaia Meduza (Marsh Medusa), twenty-five poems about St Petersburg, written before the Revolution and advertised as ‘ready for the press’ in the advertisement leaves of his other collections, but never in fact published. Nine of the poems appeared in 1922 under the title Iz topi blat, but the complete cycle appears here for the first time.
OCLC locates six copies (Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, NYPL, Stanford, Yale).
Tarasenkov, p. 210.
