SOKOLOV, Ippolit Vasilevich, et al.
A.
[Moscow, 1921.]
12mo, pp. 14, [2] blank, title with large letter ‘A’ printed in red; unbound as issued.
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First edition: four short poems from the leading Soviet film critic Ippolit Sokolov, together with lyric pieces by two minor writers, Boris Pereleshin and Aleksandr Rakitnikov.
MoMA 353; Tarasenkov p. 298; not in Kilgour.
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