TAUBER E. (1903-1987) Odinochestvo [Solitude]. Berlin: Parabola, 1935.

79, [5] pp.; 19 x 13 cm. In the publisher’s typographic wrapper. In very good condition. Slight rubbing and soiling to the wrapper. Ekaterina Tauber (1903-1987) was a poet, prose writer and critic of the ‘first wave’ of the Russian emigration. She published five collections of poetry. Her poems were included in the best-known anthologies of Russian émigré poetry, ‘The Anchor’ (1936), ‘In the West’ (1953) and others, and appeared in many journals: ‘Sovremennye zapiski’, ‘Russkie zapiski’, ‘Vozrozhdenie’, ‘Grani’, ‘Novyy zhurnal’. Before the war she belonged to the literary group ‘Crossroads’, close to V. Khodasevich. After the Second World War she taught Russian for 16 years at the Lycée Carnot in Cannes, where she became close to B. Zaitsev, I. Bunin and D. Klenovsky. The poet’s first book. Bibliography: Turchinsky, p. 524; Okhlopkov, p. 173.