ULITA Pervyy al’manakh Ural’skoy literaturnoy assotsiatsii [First Almanac of the Ural Literary Association]. Ekaterinburg: Granit, 1922.

93, [3] pp.; 15.5 x 11 cm. In the publisher’s illustrated wrapper designed by V. Gerasimov. In good condition. Rubbing and soiling to the wrapper, tears to the spine, foxing. Expressive presentation inscription on the title page: ‘To naughty little Olga from her ‘idol’ 30 / IX-27’. The poets in the almanac include G. Amursky, Ya. Bauman, V. Buynitsky, V. Girshgorn, P. Goncharov, G. Kazarov, I. Keller, P. Kozin, L. Leontiev, O. Mamin, I. Rubanovsky, B. Sergeev-Gerasimov, M. Chernysh and P. Yurasov. The Ural Literary Association was founded in January 1922 in Ekaterinburg. Its initiator was Boris Malkin, appointed by Moscow (in fact exiled as a former member of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries’ Central Committee) as head of the Ekaterinburg Provincial Political Education Department. After Malkin left for Moscow, the Association’s activity waned and ceased altogether by the end of 1922. The Association’s only publication.