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Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 92 pages, with Introduction by the translators and Notes on the Poems that help with the pronunciation of place names and give a date for each poem and context for some. First Penguin edition of this collection of 22 poems by the Russian poet, written in the 1950s. Included are his famous "Babiy Yar" (site of the mass murder of Jews in Kiev) and the long poem "Zima Junction", set in his native Siberia. Portrait photo of the poet on inside front cover. Mass-market paperback, wraps lightly soiled and foxed along spine, worn at crown, stain to two pages in Introduction from laid-in newspaper clipping, otherwise pages unmarked. Theh clipping is Yevtushenko's "Letter to America", written in Cuba after JFK announced the trade blockade of the island (Feb. 1962).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 140 pages. Photographs by Malcolm Varon. Tour of the mediaeval art museum in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, constituted from components of European monasteries and housing the Unicorn Tapestries, Robert Campin's Annunciation (c. 1425), sculptures and artifacts; illustrated throughout with color photographs (plates and cuts) and diagrams of each room. 7-1/4" x 9-1/4", printed on glossy stock, very light shelf wear, touch of foxing to end papers, pages unmarked. Bonus with this copy is a laid-in clipping (folded in tissue paper to prevent staining the book) of a 1978 TLS review by Geoffrey Grigson of Margaret B. Freeman's book on the Unicorn Tapestries.

Wesleyan University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 59 pages. Poems grouped in four sections: The Moon-Globe, Nine Deaths, Poem in Three Parts (Broken Field Running / Dancing in the Dark / The Light Show), and The Portable Earth-Lamp. Cover and title-page photo by John Theilgard. Trade paperback, almost no visible wear, hint of foxing to top edge, price written in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.