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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). Kavkazskii plennik, povest'. [A Prisoner of the Caucasus.] St Petersburg: N. Grech, 1822.
The rare first edition of this early Pushkin masterpiece. RBH and ABPC record only two copies having sold at auction (one, the Diaghilev-Lifar copy, lacking the portrait). Smirnov-Sokol'skii remarks that this work 'delighted the reading public' and sold out very quickly – even if Pushkin himself was somewhat dismissive of it, as was often the case when he wrote to friends about recently finished works. Kilgour 875; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 2.
Octavo (200 x 130mm). With the engraved portrait by Egor Geitman (without the half-title; portrait worn and soiled and repaired in the margins; title and the first and last few leaves repaired in the inside margins and some outside margins; tear in the inside margin of the title; small repaired loss, not affecting the text, in the bottom margin of leaf 3.1; soiling and staining). Contemporary half calf (rebacked; endpapers renewed; corners repaired in cloth).
The rare first edition of this early Pushkin masterpiece. RBH and ABPC record only two copies having sold at auction (one, the Diaghilev-Lifar copy, lacking the portrait). Smirnov-Sokol'skii remarks that this work 'delighted the reading public' and sold out very quickly – even if Pushkin himself was somewhat dismissive of it, as was often the case when he wrote to friends about recently finished works. Kilgour 875; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 2.
Octavo (200 x 130mm). With the engraved portrait by Egor Geitman (without the half-title; portrait worn and soiled and repaired in the margins; title and the first and last few leaves repaired in the inside margins and some outside margins; tear in the inside margin of the title; small repaired loss, not affecting the text, in the bottom margin of leaf 3.1; soiling and staining). Contemporary half calf (rebacked; endpapers renewed; corners repaired in cloth).
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