[RUSSIAN LITERATURE] - CVETAEVA (Marina Ivanovna). Разлука: книга стихов. [Separation: a book of poems]. Mockba, Берлин: Геликон, 1922 [Moscow, Berlin: Gelikon, 1922]. -In-16, 154x125: 37 pp, (1 blank f.). Publisher's gray paper boards, printed label on front board. Sought-after first edition of the third collection of poems by the celebrated Russian poet Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva (1892-1941), the first published in exile. It consists of a series of eight poems forming the "Separation" cycle, written in May-June 1921 in Moscow and addressed to her husband Sergei Efron, who had taken refuge in Prague after the defeat of the White Army by the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. They are followed by the poet's first long narrative in verse, entitled На красном коне (On a Red Horse) dedicated to the poet Anna Ahmatova (1889-1966). This book was banned and withdrawn from circulation in the USSR. Perfectly preserved copy despite some foxing.