![TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941). Vechernii al'bom. Stikhi. Detsvo. Liubov. Tol'ko teni. [Evening Album. Poems. Childhood. Love. Only Shadows.] Moscow: [A.I. Mamontov for the author] 1910.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0181_001(tsvetaeva_marina_ivanovna_vechernii_albom_stikhi_detsvo_liubov_tolko_t124802).jpg?w=1)
![TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941). Vechernii al'bom. Stikhi. Detsvo. Liubov. Tol'ko teni. [Evening Album. Poems. Childhood. Love. Only Shadows.] Moscow: [A.I. Mamontov for the author] 1910.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0181_000(tsvetaeva_marina_ivanovna_vechernii_albom_stikhi_detsvo_liubov_tolko_t124741).jpg?w=1)
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TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941). Vechernii al'bom. Stikhi. Detsvo. Liubov. Tol'ko teni. [Evening Album. Poems. Childhood. Love. Only Shadows.] Moscow: [A.I. Mamontov for the author] 1910.
Presentation copy of the rare first edition of Tsvetaeva’s first book. One of only 500 copies, published at her own cost. RBH and ABPC record a single copy at auction, not a presentation copy. Tsvetaeva is, with Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova, Russia's most important modern poet. ‘In both her poetry and her prose, nothing remains hanging or leaves a feeling of ambivalence. Tsvetaeva is the unique case in which the paramount spiritual experience of an epoch (for us, the sense of ambivalence, of contradictoriness in the nature of human existence) served not as the object of expression but as its means, by which it was transformed into the material of art' (J.Brodsky, quoted in Terras). This copy bears Tsvetaeva’s autograph inscription ‘Dear Evgeny Vishnyakov, [your] grateful student Marina Tsvetaeva. Moscow, November 3, 1910’.
Octavo (167 x 125mm). Complete with the errata; printed throughout on heavy wove paper (title and half title repaired at gutter, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting). Contemporary cloth (hinges repaired, abrasions to the spine and front cover, corners worn). Provenance: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (inscription on half title to:) - Evgeny Vishnyakov - Sergey Makarov (ownership inscription dated 7 October 1936 on half title. Pencil mark on p.216. Further inscription gifting the book to a friend: ) – ‘Tosenka’.
Presentation copy of the rare first edition of Tsvetaeva’s first book. One of only 500 copies, published at her own cost. RBH and ABPC record a single copy at auction, not a presentation copy. Tsvetaeva is, with Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova, Russia's most important modern poet. ‘In both her poetry and her prose, nothing remains hanging or leaves a feeling of ambivalence. Tsvetaeva is the unique case in which the paramount spiritual experience of an epoch (for us, the sense of ambivalence, of contradictoriness in the nature of human existence) served not as the object of expression but as its means, by which it was transformed into the material of art' (J.Brodsky, quoted in Terras). This copy bears Tsvetaeva’s autograph inscription ‘Dear Evgeny Vishnyakov, [your] grateful student Marina Tsvetaeva. Moscow, November 3, 1910’.
Octavo (167 x 125mm). Complete with the errata; printed throughout on heavy wove paper (title and half title repaired at gutter, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting). Contemporary cloth (hinges repaired, abrasions to the spine and front cover, corners worn). Provenance: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (inscription on half title to:) - Evgeny Vishnyakov - Sergey Makarov (ownership inscription dated 7 October 1936 on half title. Pencil mark on p.216. Further inscription gifting the book to a friend: ) – ‘Tosenka’.
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