8 vo, publishers wrs. with two-color printed text preserved (missing in three other copies examined by cataloger in 1970s and 1980s in Leningrad and New York), chipped spine, slightely soiled front cover. GOOD.
Among contributors: Georgii Adamovich, Nikolai Gumilev, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Irina Odoevtseva, Vladimir Pozner, Georgii Ivanov, et. al. 'Tsekh poetov' planned to publish at least three almanacs but only two almanacs appeared: 'Kniga Pervaia (Drakon)' and 'Kniga Vtoraia'.The announced 'Kniga Tret´ia' was never published.
In the USSR the almanac was banned for distribution in the antiquarian book trade and library networks starting from 1930s through the late 1950s. |