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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Gray and blue softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 114 pages. Rare first publication of this early work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) by the only publishing house outside of Russia dedicated to Russian literature in both English and Russian. This Russian-language collection consists of poems written by the poet before leaving the Soviet Union and contains Brodsky's famous "Letter to general Z" ["Pismo generalu Z"] written in 1968 as a response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the title poem "The End of a Beautiful Era" (1969) and the 1967 poem on loss entitled "Speech over Spilled Milk" ["Rech o prolitom moloke"]. This collection was compiled by the author himself in collaboration with his friends Karl and Ellendea Proffer, creators of "Ardis".…