MANDEL'SHTAM, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938). Tristia. St Petersburg and Berlin: Petropolis, 1922.
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MANDEL'SHTAM, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938). Tristia. St Petersburg and Berlin: Petropolis, 1922.

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MANDEL'SHTAM, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938). Tristia. St Petersburg and Berlin: Petropolis, 1922.

The first edition of the author's second collection of poetry. These important poems, written since the 1916 publication of Kamen, reflect on the great war, revolutionary turmoil, and the poet's increasing sense of alienation in the new world order. The striking cover design, showing a classical gate in a modernist style, is by the artist Mstitslav Dobuzhinskii (1875-1957). Kilgour 698; MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, 377.

Octavo (152 x 112mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original off-white printed wrappers, upper cover design by M.V. Dobuzhinskii printed in black (small ink stains on the front cover near the edges; light wear to the extremities).
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