first edition , one of 2,000 copies, 1p. advertisements, slight age-toning, original wrappers printed in blue & black, preserved in modern cloth sleeve, a fine copy, "Petropolis", 1921. The great Russian poet's poetic lament, partly in response to the death of her first husband Gumilev (see lot 395), executed by the Soviets in the summer of that year; the work marks a shift away from the more romantic style of her previous works.