1. AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966), Osip MANDELSHTAM (1891-1938), Vladislav KHODASEVICH (1886-1939) and others. Liricheskii krug. Stranitsy poezii i kritiki. I [A Lyrical Circle. Pages of Poetry and Criticism. Vol.1]. Moscow: "Severnye Dni," 1922. 96 pp. Small 8vo (200 x 140 mm). Original Constructivist wrappers designed Nikolai Kupreyanov. Condition: wrappers lightly thumbsoiled.
ONE OF 2000 COPIES. With contributions by Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Grossman, Konstantin Lipskerov, Osip Mandelshtam, Sofia Parnok, Vladislav Khodasevich, Sergei Shervisnkii, Abram Efros, Andrei Globa and others. Both Akhmatova and Mandelshtam were later persecuted by the Soviet authorities; he died in the Gulag in 1938. Khodasevich left for Berlin where he early championed Vladimir Nabokov. He called Khodasevich "the greatest Russian poet of our time." Not in MoMA.
est. $500 – $800