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CHEKHOV, Anton (1860-1904). V Sumerkakh. [At Dusk]. St. Petersburg: Suvorina, 1887.
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CHEKHOV, Anton (1860-1904). V Sumerkakh. [At Dusk]. St. Petersburg: Suvorina, 1887.
8o (175 x 116 mm). 8-page publisher's catalogue. (Ink stain to fore edge and outer margins at end.) Contemporary half-sheep and marbled boards (slight wear to edges). Provenance: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Leikin (1841-1906) journalist and writer (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CHEKHOV TO HIS FRIEND THE JOURNALIST AND WRITER NIKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH LEIKIN on the half-title. Leikin was the editor and publisher of the comic magazine Oskolki from 1882-1905. The young Chekhov contributed over 200 stories, many in the manner of Leikin, between 1882 and 1887 to this publication. This collection of short stories, a form which Chekhov revolutionized, was published in the year of the staging of Chekhov's first full length drama, "Ivanov." Gottlieb and Allain, The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov; Lidin, Druz'ya moi knigi Moscow 1962, pp.133-34.
8o (175 x 116 mm). 8-page publisher's catalogue. (Ink stain to fore edge and outer margins at end.) Contemporary half-sheep and marbled boards (slight wear to edges). Provenance: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Leikin (1841-1906) journalist and writer (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CHEKHOV TO HIS FRIEND THE JOURNALIST AND WRITER NIKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH LEIKIN on the half-title. Leikin was the editor and publisher of the comic magazine Oskolki from 1882-1905. The young Chekhov contributed over 200 stories, many in the manner of Leikin, between 1882 and 1887 to this publication. This collection of short stories, a form which Chekhov revolutionized, was published in the year of the staging of Chekhov's first full length drama, "Ivanov." Gottlieb and Allain, The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov; Lidin, Druz'ya moi knigi Moscow 1962, pp.133-34.