Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich

Ognennyi Stolp (The Pillar of Fire)

Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1975. Facsimile edition. Original publisher's wrappers. Item #366

Dimensions: 15.2 x 10.2 cm. 73 pages. Text in Russian. A very good and clean copy. Facsimile edition of the "Petropolis" 1921 edition published in the United States. One of 1,000 copies printed.

A collection of fantastic, even nightmarish, poems rejecting the communist triumph in which Gumilev profoundly expresses his hate for the revolution and his disdain for communism's emphasis on the collective over the individual.

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