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Shater. Stikhi [The Tent. Poems]. .
Revel: “Bibliofil,” 1921. Illustrated by Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov. (56) pp., 4to (155 x 120 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by N. N. Kalmakov. [Together with 6 other works by Gumilev:] Ballady [Ballads] . Petrograd: Vsemirnaya Literatura, 1919. By Robert Southey. Translated from the English by N. Gumilev. 112 pp., small 4to (150 x 110 mm). Original decorated pink wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled. [ Poema o starom moryake [The Rime of the Ancient Mariner] . Petrograd: Vsemirnaya Literatura, 1919. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Translated from the English by N. Gumilev. 40 pp., small 4to (105 x 155mm). Original decorated white wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored. Printsipy khudolestvennogo perevoda [The Principles of Artistic Translation] . Petrograd: Vsemirnaya Literatura, 1919. By Kornei Chukovsky and N. Gumilov. 31 pp., 8vo (215 x 152 mm). Original brown wrappers. Condition: front wrapper chipped; spine beginning to split; some water staining of pages. Chukovsky provided the essay on prose translation and Guliev on poetry. Koster [Pillar of Fire] . Petersburg and Berlin: Z. I. Grzhebin,1922. Second printing. 60 pp., small 4to (140 x 110mm). Original decorated white wrappers. Condition: front wrapper detached, soiled. Tit Petronii Arbitr Matrona iz Efesa [The Matron of Ephesus of Petronius Arbiter] . Petrograd: [B. Ya. Avidon], 1923. Translated from the Latin with notes by G. I. Gidoni. Preface by N. S. Gumilev. 12 engravings by Grigorii Gidoni. Original decorated tan wrapprers designed by G. Gidondi. Condition: some soiling and wear. One of 550 copies. Zbrannye stikhi [Selected Poems] . By Théophile Gautier Translated from the French by Vsevolod Rozhdesvenskii. Petrograd, “Mysl,” 1923. 64 pp., 4to (175 x 135mm). Original offwhite wrappers. Condition: wrappers worn and spine beginning to split. One of 3,000 copies. N. S. Gumilov was a founder of the Acemist movement and Anna Akhmatova’s first husband. Vladmir Nabokov called him the poet of adolescents. Gumilov joined the Russian Army during World War I and was twice decorated for bravery on the Eastern Front. He supported Kerensky’s Provisional Government and was appointed special commissar in France. On his return to Russia in 1918, he joined Maxim Gorky and Kornei Chukovsky’s publishing house Vsemirnaya Literatura [World Literature] and served as head of the French literature department. In 1921, the Cheka arrested him for participation in a monarchist conspiracy and he was executed. Consequently his work was banned by the Bolshevik regime. (7)