fourth edition, some age-toning to margins, unopened, original wrappers to Futurist design, a very good copy, preserved in board sleeve and slip-case, 8vo, Petropolis, 1923. Russia's first openly gay classic by the "Northern Wilde." The liberating influence of the Revolution of 1905 encouraged the first flowering of gay literature in Russia. First published as the entire No. 11 of the leading modernist literary journal Vesy [ The Scales ] in November 1906, Krylya followed works by Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide as the first important novel in Russian literature to deal openly with homosexuality.