Chernyi Iar by Gumilevskii, Lev - 1926

Moscow/Leningrad: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1926. First edition; 6 x 8 1/2; pp. [2], 5-190, [2] including text to last page; original pictorial wraps; minor age-toning along margins of covers; few cuts and wrinkles to edges and corners; very faint penciled-in number to upper corner of front cover; most pages still unopened; illustrated; very good to near fine.1 of 5000 copies. Beautiful Avant Garde cover art and illustrations by Russian Constructivist artist A. Suvorov. Prolific author and editor Lev Gumilevskii's young adult story of a small village on the banks of the Volga river, the struggles to cope with the aftermath of the Revolution, and the bravery of the small boy Egorka in his battle for justice with the all-powerful Village Council.