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PUSHKIN, Alexander – Literaturnaia gazeta. T. 1 & 2. [The Literary Gazette. Volumes 1 and 2.] St Petersburg: by Karl Krai for A.A. Delvig, 1830.
Two volumes in one, 4° (300 x 235mm), comprising 68 issues (of 72). With the general title for volume 1. (Complete with all Pushkin’s contributions but lacking issues 19, 47, 53, and 54; issue 4 without leaves 1 and 2, and issues 29, 36, 48 and 60 each without leaf 5; dampstain in the bottom margin; some repairs and small wormholes mainly in the margins of the first and last few leaves; occasional light soiling.) 20th-century black cloth-backed marbled boards Provenance: Obshchestvennaia biblioteka (stamp dated 1909 on first title).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ‘GREAT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RARITY’ (Smirnov-Sokol’skii); a nearly full run COMPLETE WITH ALL PUSHKIN’S CONTRIBUTIONS for these two volumes: seventeen first publications of verse and prose by Pushkin, as listed in Smirnov-Sokol’skii: ‘otryvok iz VIII glavy Evgeniia Onegina’, ‘Stansy’, ‘Otvet’, ‘Voenno-gruzinskaia doroga’, ‘Stantsy’, ‘V al’bom’, ‘Kalmychke’, ‘Arion’, and others, including a number of reviews. Pushkin edited issues 3 through 12, with the assistance of O.M. Somov. RARE: WorldCat locates only one copy, at the National Library of Israel; ABPC and RBH record no copy sold at auction. Dement’eva, Russkaia periodicheskaia pechat, pp.211-12; Modzalevskii, Biblioteka A.S. Pushkina, 477; Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 95.
Two volumes in one, 4° (300 x 235mm), comprising 68 issues (of 72). With the general title for volume 1. (Complete with all Pushkin’s contributions but lacking issues 19, 47, 53, and 54; issue 4 without leaves 1 and 2, and issues 29, 36, 48 and 60 each without leaf 5; dampstain in the bottom margin; some repairs and small wormholes mainly in the margins of the first and last few leaves; occasional light soiling.) 20th-century black cloth-backed marbled boards Provenance: Obshchestvennaia biblioteka (stamp dated 1909 on first title).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ‘GREAT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RARITY’ (Smirnov-Sokol’skii); a nearly full run COMPLETE WITH ALL PUSHKIN’S CONTRIBUTIONS for these two volumes: seventeen first publications of verse and prose by Pushkin, as listed in Smirnov-Sokol’skii: ‘otryvok iz VIII glavy Evgeniia Onegina’, ‘Stansy’, ‘Otvet’, ‘Voenno-gruzinskaia doroga’, ‘Stantsy’, ‘V al’bom’, ‘Kalmychke’, ‘Arion’, and others, including a number of reviews. Pushkin edited issues 3 through 12, with the assistance of O.M. Somov. RARE: WorldCat locates only one copy, at the National Library of Israel; ABPC and RBH record no copy sold at auction. Dement’eva, Russkaia periodicheskaia pechat, pp.211-12; Modzalevskii, Biblioteka A.S. Pushkina, 477; Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 95.
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