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Belaya staya [The White Flock
Petrograd: Giperborei, 1917. 144 pp., 8vo (173 x 125 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored and chipped; spine splitting. [Together with 6 other works by Akhmatova:] Anno domini MCMXXI. [Petrograd]: “Petropolis,” 1921. one of 2,000 copies. 103 pp., 4to (125 x 93 mm). Printed by Golike and Vilborg, Petrograd. Printer’s mark by Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky. Original white wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored and soiled; ink mark on title page. Chetki [Rosary]. Berlin: S. Ephron, [1921]. 118 pp., 8vo (190 x 135 mm). Original white wrappers. Condition : wrappers soiled and bumped. Podorozhnik [Plantain]. Petrograd: “Petropolis,” 1921. Frontispiece by Mstislav Valeryanovich Dobuzhinsky. 61 pp., 4to (127 x 90 mm). Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Condition: wrappers restored; internal soiling. one of 1,000 copies. U samogo morya [At the Edge of the Sea] . Petrograd: “Alkonost,” 1921. 4to, 36 pp., (155 x 115 mm). Original white wrappers. Condition: water damage to wrappers and first page; spine partially split. One of 3,000 copies. first book publication of a poem that originally appeared in the journal Apollon in 1915. Izbrannoe. Stikhi [Selected Poems] . [Tashkent]: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1943. Selected by K. Zelinskii. 4to, 115 pp., (135 x 110 mm). Condition: front wrapper replaced. Akhmatova evacuated to Tashkent in 1943, and the state issued this collection to uplift the public’s spirits during The Great Patriotic War (World War II). Izbrannye stikhotvoreniya [Selected Poems]. New York: [Chekhov Publishing House,] 1952. 8vo, 262 pp., (215 x 140 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: top of spine chipped; loss of lower right hand corner of front wrapper. (7).