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[POETRY] LOT: 1) IVAN-DA-MARYA. Excerpts from Georgian Poets: [Translations from Georgian]. Second, expanded edition. Published and printed by K.P. Kozlovski, Tiflis, 1897. 64 pp., in-12, later binding, B.E. Ex-libris of the owner “Peter André.” 2) FIGNER, V.N. Poems. Published and printed by A.A. Goldberg, Saint Petersburg, 1906. 30 pp., in-8, publisher’s binding, as is. Signed by the author. [POETRY] LOT: 1) IVAN-DA-MARYA. Georgian Poets in Selected Works: [Translations from Georgian]. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Printed by K.P. Kozlovsky, Tiflis, 1897. 64 pp., 19 × 13.5 cm, owner’s binding, in fair condition. With the owner’s bookplate “Peter André.” Ivan-da-Marja is the collective pseudonym of the translators Ivan Feliksovich Tkhorzhevsky and his wife Alexandra Alexandrovna Tkhorzhevskaya. 2) FIGNER, V.N. Poems. Published by A.A. Goldberg’s Printing House, St. Petersburg, 1906. 30 pp., 22.5 × 15.7 cm, hardcover, in fair condition (stains, cover coming away, spine missing, cover and block worn at the edges). With a dedicatory inscription: “In memory of A. Jeau, where the seabed is visible and a crab crawls through the waters, wiggling its antennae… frogs break the silence of the night and the mountains slumber under a dark cap.” The poet’s first book of poetry.