REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich.
Elektron.
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.
12mo, pp. 32, [3], contemporary ownership note on title; a very good copy in the original orange printed wrappers designed by Remizov.
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).
Getty 671; Hellyer 812; Kilgour 934; MoMA 239; Tarasenkov, p. 317.
