Pervoe svidanie

Peterburg: Alkonost, 1921. First edition. Original wrappers, 69 pp. A very good copy, hinges split. Contemporary inscription on title page. One of an edition of 3000 copies; a Berlin edition appeared the following year. "Of all this great writer's works, it remains the one whose artistic merit and value are unassailed. Some critics even place it among the finest achievements of twentieth-century Russian poetry...[it] can also be appreciated as a compendium of Bely's lifework in literature " Gerald Janacek, Introduction to his 1977 translation "The First Encounter