AVERCHENKO, Arkady. Арка́дий Аве́рченко. (Assoc. Helene Heinsdorf-Lewinson)

In original printed card covers. Hélène Heinsdorf's pictorial ex libris (by J. T.)inside. Small 8vo., 138[i]pp. In good condition, showing light signs of wear. Usual browning of paper, free endpaper loose but present. The present volume was published in 1923 by Zlatolyra in Sofia but actually printed in Berlin. By this time the author was living in Prague. Born in Sevastopol in 1881, the satirist Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko Арка́дий Тимофе́евич Аве́рченко moved to Petersburg in 1908 where he became editor of the magazine Dragonfly, later Satyrikon and New Satyrikon. Frequent contributors were humourist Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya), graphic artist Re-Mi (Nikolai Remizov) and the poet Sasha Chorny (Alexander Glikberg). After the October Revolution, the journal was declared anti-Soviet and Averchenko moved back home but then left hurriedly for Constantinople. He eventually settled in Prague. As well as the Ottoman capital, he also stayed briefly in Paris, Sofia and Belgrade, publishing in most of these cities. His oeuvre comprises some 20 books and numerous articles and collections. All his books are now scarce. Polish journalist Helene Heinsdorf-Lewinson? See Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.