BRUSSOF, Valery (Briusov, Bryusov) (Ed. Stephen Graham).

Title The Republic of the Southern Cross: and other stories. With an introduction by Stephen Graham. Constable’s Russian Library.
Publisher London Constable
Date 1918
Book ID 37941
First Edition  

Description

First British edition. A very nice bright copy in original green cloth, gilt lettered spine and original unclipped printed dust-wrapper. xiii[iii]+162 pp.. In very good condition, tight and clean. Dust-wrapper a little chipped at edges. Mild foxing to fore-edges. One of some six volumes published by Constable in their Russian series between 1915 and 1918. Short stories by some of the most avant-garde and important literary figures of the time collected and edited by Stephen Graham, traveller, author and Russophile. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Брю́сов 1873-1924. Leading literary figure in pre-revolutionary Russia and “acknowledged organising genius of Russian Symbolist movement”. Founder of Skorpion. Grossman in Cornwall (1998)
Price: £80.00