Joseph Brodsky
Ostanovka v Pustyne.
New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1970. First edition. 228 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays (very) light foxing to covers and top edge of text block. Creasing can be seen on spine. Indentation from paper clip appears at top edge of front cover. Binding is sound. A substantial part of second poem ("Bolshaya Elegiya") is annotated in pencil. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. Two-page typed errata is folded and laid in.
This is a rare edition of an early poetry collection by Russian-American poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), who was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity" and appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.