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MANDEL'SHTAM, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938). Stikhotvoreniia. [Poems.] Moscow and St Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1928.
The first edition, inscribed by Mandel'shtam with two lines from Tristia, one of his best-loved poems: 'Vse bylo vstar', vse povtoritsia snova, / I sladok nam lish' uznavan'ia mig.' [Everything has been before, everything will be repeated / And the moment of recognition alone is sweet to us.] Stikhotvoreniia is the last collection of poems published in Mandel'shtam's lifetime; it includes twenty new poems from the 1921-1925 period, and reprises selections from his two earlier collections. From about 1923, Mandel'shtam had been prevented from publishing poetry; this collection would have not appeared had it not been for the intervention of Nikolai Bukharin, the popular Bolshevik revolutionary and theoretician, editor of Pravda and Izvestia, and Mandel'shtam's political protector.
Octavo (170 x 125mm). (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Original light brown paper covered boards, sides and spine printed in black, contemporary printed price label on the back cover (rebacked preserving some of the original spine; edges repaired). Mandel'shtam's incription in black ink in the top left corner of the front endpaper. Provenance: Alex Rabinovich – Peter B. Howard, Serendipity Books (purchased August 2004).
The first edition, inscribed by Mandel'shtam with two lines from Tristia, one of his best-loved poems: 'Vse bylo vstar', vse povtoritsia snova, / I sladok nam lish' uznavan'ia mig.' [Everything has been before, everything will be repeated / And the moment of recognition alone is sweet to us.] Stikhotvoreniia is the last collection of poems published in Mandel'shtam's lifetime; it includes twenty new poems from the 1921-1925 period, and reprises selections from his two earlier collections. From about 1923, Mandel'shtam had been prevented from publishing poetry; this collection would have not appeared had it not been for the intervention of Nikolai Bukharin, the popular Bolshevik revolutionary and theoretician, editor of Pravda and Izvestia, and Mandel'shtam's political protector.
Octavo (170 x 125mm). (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Original light brown paper covered boards, sides and spine printed in black, contemporary printed price label on the back cover (rebacked preserving some of the original spine; edges repaired). Mandel'shtam's incription in black ink in the top left corner of the front endpaper. Provenance: Alex Rabinovich – Peter B. Howard, Serendipity Books (purchased August 2004).
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