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ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-

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[Paris: n. p., 1914]. 23 pp. 12mo (130 x 105 mm). Original wrappers designed by E. Shiryaev. Condition: wrappers creased, some shipping to fold. [With]: Poetry frantsii 1870-1913 [French Poetry from 1870 to 19123]. Paris: "Gelikon," 1914. 144 pp. Small 4to (220 x 185 mm). Rebound in black cloth with the original lettered tan wrappers bound in. Condition: minor wear to wrappers. [And:] Ogon [Fire]. [Gomel:] "Veka i Dni," 1919. 40 pp. 8vo (170 x 135 mm). Condition: lacking wrappers. three early works by the famous modern russian writer. Remembered primarily as a novelist and journalist, Erenburg was also a prolific poet. He took the title of Ogon from Luke 12:49 ("I am come to send fire on the earth") and published the book in the Belarussian town of Gomel. He spent considerable time in Paris where he met many of the important writers and artists of the period. Some of the poets he translated into Russian in Poetry frantsii are Guillaume Apollinaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and oddly the Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti. (3)

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