SAVINKOV BORIS (1879-1925) Kniga stikhov: posmertnoe izdanie [Book of Poems: Posthumous Edition] / V. Ropshin (B. Savinkov); [preface by Z. Gippius]. Paris: [Rodnik], 1931.

XII, 84, [6] pp., 1 portrait plate; 19 x 14.5 cm. Print run of 100 copies. Unnumbered copy. Printed on Dutch paper. The portrait of B. Savinkov is an original photograph by the Russian photographer P.I. Shumov, bearing his signature. In the publisher’s typographic wrapper. Minor soiling, browning of the paper, damp stains on the front wrapper, faint rust marks from the staples in the text block, foxing. First edition. No collection of the author’s poems appeared during his lifetime. This posthumous edition was published through the efforts of Z.N. Gippius, who was Savinkov’s patron and suggested his literary pseudonym ‘V. Ropshin’. Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (1879-1925) was one of the leaders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and a theorist and practitioner of political terrorism; as a poet and novelist he wrote under the pseudonym V. Ropshin. Bibliography: Turchinsky, p. 457.