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KRANDIEVSKAYA NATALIA (1888-1963) Stikhotvoreniia: Kniga 2-aya. [Poems: Book 2]. Odessa: Omphalos, 1919.

Lot 701
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55, [5] p.; 16x11 cm. In the original illustrated cover. Condition satisfactory. Scratches, stains, foxing on the cover, creases on the corners of the cover, block partially detached, minor tears on the spine, ownership’s signature on the flyleaf. The second book of poetry by Natalia Vasilyevna Krandievskaya-Tolstaya (1888-1963), wife of A.N. Tolstoy. Published in Odessa, from where the Tolstoy couple emigrated to Constantinople in the same year. At the end of the book is a catalog of the Odessa publishing house Omphalos; some of the books mentioned in it were never published (including a collection by M.A. Voloshin).


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