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Korabli. Vtoraia kniga stikhov [Ships. A Second Book of Poems].

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First edition of the second collection of poems published by Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet well-known for her translations of Shakespeare.

Radlova chose to be repatriated at the end of the war – she was immediately sent to a concentration camp, where she later died.

Getty 667; MoMA 320; Tarasenkov, p. 313.

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