GUMILEV NIKOLAI (1886-1921) AUTOGRAPH Mik: Afrikanskata poema: Stikhi [African Poems: Poems]. 1918

- PG: Giperborey, 1918 - 45, [3] p. Edition of 500 copies. Publisher's font cover. In good condition. Author's dedicatory inscription on the first free page: "Dorogomu Alekseyu Aleksandrovichu / Radakovu / na dobru pamyat ot ego / iskrennego tsenitelya / 4 sent. 1919 / N. Gumilev." ["To dear Alexei Alexandrovich / Radakov / in good memory from his / sincere connoisseur / 4 September. 1919 / N. Gumilev"] Friend of Nikolai Gumilev, Alexey Alexandrovich Radakov (1879-1942) – caricaturist, painter, and poet. Together, they often visited the "Brodyachaya sobaka"." In 1908, Radakov became one of the founders, as well as the chief editor and artist of the first eight issues of the magazine "Satirikon." "...the strangest of Gumilev's books. Something between Kipling and … Charskaya. For children - intricate and boring, for adults - naive..." Bibliography: Turchinsky. P. 157; Lesman. No. 747.