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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (1886-1921). Romanticheskie tsvety. Stikhi 1903-1907 g. [Romantic Flowers: Poems of the Years 1903-1907]. St Petersburg: Prometei, 1918.
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers. This is the third edition of Gumilev’s second collection, gathering some of the earliest, symbolist poems in his career. They were composed before his marriage to Anna Akhmatova, and before his style was influenced by the poetic groups of the Guild of Poets, from 1911, and of the Acmeists, shortly after. This collection displayed his ‘erudition in taking more of his imagery from the mythical tradition but also introduced exotic images…designed to startle his readers’; in it he also used the theme of Africa as a ‘primitive and cruel setting’ for the first time (Moser). Kilgour 419. C. Moser, The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, p. 427.
Quarto (210 x 155mm). (Uniform slight age browning, occasional spotting, ink splash (?) to one leaf, the odd thumb mark). In the original stamped wrappers, in modern folding box (extremities, joints and spine repaired, wrappers worn with few old stains). Provenance: Nikolai Gumilev (dedication on first blank) – Sophia Kershaw Robman (?).
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers. This is the third edition of Gumilev’s second collection, gathering some of the earliest, symbolist poems in his career. They were composed before his marriage to Anna Akhmatova, and before his style was influenced by the poetic groups of the Guild of Poets, from 1911, and of the Acmeists, shortly after. This collection displayed his ‘erudition in taking more of his imagery from the mythical tradition but also introduced exotic images…designed to startle his readers’; in it he also used the theme of Africa as a ‘primitive and cruel setting’ for the first time (Moser). Kilgour 419. C. Moser, The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, p. 427.
Quarto (210 x 155mm). (Uniform slight age browning, occasional spotting, ink splash (?) to one leaf, the odd thumb mark). In the original stamped wrappers, in modern folding box (extremities, joints and spine repaired, wrappers worn with few old stains). Provenance: Nikolai Gumilev (dedication on first blank) – Sophia Kershaw Robman (?).
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