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5 December 2012, 10:00 EST
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ZAMYATIN, YEVGENY. 1884-1937.

KUSTODIEV, BORIS, illustrator. Zhitie Blokhie ot dnya chudesnogo I do dnya priskorbnoy konchiny. Leningrad: Knigoizdatelstvo pisateley, 1929.
8vo. 37 pp. Illustrated with full page plates. Original printed wrappers; glassine jacket. Some wear and tear to glassine, else about fine.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, being a brief prose version of The Flea which had previously appeared as a play. The illustrator had designed the stage setting and costumes for performances and was working on a suite of illustrations for the play when he died. Inscribed by Zamyatin in the year of publication: "To Eynar Yakovlevich Krake, in memory of our meeting one autumn evening in Moscow / 2-XI-1929." Books inscribed by Zamyatin are of great rarity.

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