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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Nevskii al’manakh na 1832 god. [The Nevskii Almanac for the year 1832.] St Petersburg: at the press of the Department of Public Education, 1832.
The first edition. An attractive copy, complete with the frontispiece, in a 19th-century Russian binding. All volumes of this influential periodical are rare. RBH and ABPC record no copy of this one having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates only one copy, at Harvard’s Houghton Library. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin 69.
Octavo (135 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece (small repairs in the margin of the frontispiece; occasional negligible marginal spotting). 19th-century Russian half calf over marbled boards; the spine flat and blind-tooled in compartments, with red and green morocco lettering pieces (corners rubbed).
The first edition. An attractive copy, complete with the frontispiece, in a 19th-century Russian binding. All volumes of this influential periodical are rare. RBH and ABPC record no copy of this one having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates only one copy, at Harvard’s Houghton Library. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin 69.
Octavo (135 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece (small repairs in the margin of the frontispiece; occasional negligible marginal spotting). 19th-century Russian half calf over marbled boards; the spine flat and blind-tooled in compartments, with red and green morocco lettering pieces (corners rubbed).
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