LIVSHITS, Benedikt Konstantinovich.

Krotonskii polden' [High Noon at Kroton].

Moscow, “Uzel”, 1928. 8vo, pp. 137, [3]; one of 100 numbered copies, of a total edition of 1000; a very good copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers, edges frayed, spine partially defective. First collected edition; with a presentation inscription in Russian on title to the poet and novelist Vissarion Mikhailovich Sayanov (1903-1959): ‘To Vissarion Saianov – on the threshold of our acquaintance – with heartfelt disposition. 6.V.1929 Leningrad’; signed by Sayanov on half-title. 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), 25 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.Hellyer 289; Tarasenkov p. 210.

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• nº de pedido: F1393.3

• librero: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)