Utkin, Iosif Pavlovich (1903 - 1944)	Pervaia kniga stikhov. Izdanie piatoe s portretom avtora. M.- L., Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel´stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1931. 117 p.	€95

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12 mo, publisher´s binding. Light blue ink spot on t.p., not affecing text. Portrait is missing. Printed on better paper. Author´s signature embossed on front cover in facsimile. RARE. Some poems differ from later editions. In some later reissues dedications are omitted by the author (?) and/or by editors. Utkin´s books were not reissued for many years after WW II and became rare. Some were withdrawn from public libraries during anti- Semitic campaigns in the USSR in 1949 - 1953 and were never returned back to library shelves. See: Saakiants, A. A. Iosif Utkin. (1969)