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EFROS, Abram [Markovich] (1888-1954). Eroticheskie

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Moscow: ["Mospoligraf"], 1922. 45 pp. 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers lightly thumbsoiled, minor chipping to edges; bookplate on verso of rear wrapper. No. 6 of 260 numbered copies. rare edition of soviet erotic poetry. Efros was a prominent Soviet art critic, poet and translator. He was also curator of the picture gallery of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and editor-in-chief of Khutozhestvennaya zhizin [Artistic Life] published by Narkompros. Somehow he found time to write and publish these 25 erotic poems. This book seems not to have been published in Russia again until 1993.

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