Hermann [German], Paul [Pavel Davidovich] (1894 - 1952) Grosser, Boris Nikolaevich (1889 - 1972?), artist	Paris enflammé (Parizh plameneiushchii. Stikhi). Paris, Edition 'LaGible', 1927. [52 p.]	€400,00

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16 mo, original publisher´s covers and title page designed by Boris Grosser.Original woodcuts by Boris Grosser on front cover and title page. 300 numbered copies printed. Out of 300 copies, a few copies were not numbered, destined for author´s personal use. PRINTED ON RAG PAPER. FINE. VERY RARE IN ANY STATE. On title page: Parizh plameneiushchii. Stikhi. Paris, 1927. Collection of poems by a Russian-Jewish poet, member of Kiev´s art-café club Kh. L. A. M. (Khudozhniki, Literatory, Artisty, Muzykanty). Pavel German is the author of lirycs for an official hymn of Soviet Air Forces 'My rozhdeny, chtob skazku sdelat´ byl´iu...'(1923), aka 'Aviamarsh' and 'Marsh aviatorov'. Music was written by a Soviet composer Iulii(Il´ia) Abramovich Khait (1897-1966) and has a great similarity to a Nazi march 'Herbei zum Kampf'. See: Gibson, Aleksei Russian poetry and criticism in Paris from 1920 to 1940.The Hague (1990) ; http://mai.exler.ru/mailogo/aviamarch/; http://mai.exler.ru/mailogo/aviamarch/german.html; Apparat TsK KPSS i kul´tura. 1953-1957. Dokumenty. M.(2001), p. 86 — 88. On Boris Grosser: Kniga: issledovaniia i materialy. Vypusk 66. M.,1993, p.168; Leikind, O.L., et al. Khudozhniki russkogo zarubezh´ia. 1917-1939. Biograficheskii slovar´. Spb., 1999, p. 247/248