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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (1886-1921). Otravlennaya tunika: Tragediya v pyati deystviyakh. [Poisoned Tunic: Tragedy in five acts]. [N.p.: n. p., after 1920)] [with:] Derevo prevrazheniy. [The tree of transformations]. [N.p.: n. p., c.1918)]. Contemporary typescripts of two pieces of theatre by Gumilev, the tragedy The Poisoned Tunic, and the children’s play The Tree of transformations. Theatre publications by Gumilev are rare. The typescripts are offered with other Gumilev’s works, notably the first edition, very rare, of his translation of T. Gautier’s Émaux et camées, in Russian Emali i kamei [St Petersburg, M. V. Popov, 1914.] in the original decorative wrappers: it was Gumilev’s first published translation and his first appearance in Russian. Other works offered here: Shater (Sebastopol [1921]; original wrappers); Koster (St Petersburg, 1918; original wrappers); Farforovyy pavil'on (St Petersburg, 1918; original wrappers); Zhemchuga (St Petersburg, 1918; original wrappers); K siney zvezde: Neizdannyye stikhi 1918 (Berlin, 1923; original wrappers); Shater: Stikhi. (Revel: Bibliofil, 1921; original decorated wrappers); Gumilev’s translations: Petronius Arbiter, Matrona iz Efesa (St Petersburg 1923; 12 woodcuts by G.I. Gidoni, original wrappers); T. Gautier, Izbrannye Stikhi (St Petersburg, 1923; original wrappers); Ballady o Robin Gude (St Petersburg, ‘Vsemirnaia Literatura’, 1919, with M. Gorky; original wrappers); S. T. Coleridge, Poema o starom moriake (St Petersburg, ‘Vsemirnaia Literatura’, 1919; original wrappers). Two volumes, folio (280 x 210mm) and octavo (210 x 152mm), typescript. Modern wrappers; preserved in a quarter morocco box. Description of further items in this lot available upon request. Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.