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BRODSKY [Brodskii]. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Shor

BRODSKY, Joseph [Iosif Brodskii]. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Short and Long Poems].

Washington, D.C.: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965. 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Original gray wrappers. Condition: some wear to wrappers and creasing; red soiling of edges. the future nobel prize winner's first collection of poems that had to be published abroad after he was sentenced to five years of hard labor for "social parasitism" in 1964. [With:] To Urania. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1988]. 8vo (235 x 155 mm). first edition. signed limited edition. No. 48 of 150 copies. Navy blue cloth within original lighter blue cloth slipcase. Condition: minor scuffing of slipcase.