Marina Tsvetaeva
Izbrannoe.
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1961. Edited with foreword by Vl. Orlov. First edition. 302 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7", displays light shelfwear, with sunnning to spine and edges of covers. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright.
This rare collection of selected lyrics is an early Soviet edition of the work of Russian poet M. Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), considered among some of the greatest in twentieth-century Russian literature, whose poetry was banned and/or the object of censorship in the Soviet Union. This publication consisted of 25,000 copies and is reported to have sold out in Moscow in two days.