![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/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0214_001(tsvetaeva_marina_ivanovna_vechernii_albom_stikhi_detsvo_liubov_tolko_t111515).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/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0214_000(tsvetaeva_marina_ivanovna_vechernii_albom_stikhi_detsvo_liubov_tolko_t111506).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.
The rare first edition of the first book by one of the 20th-century preeminent poets. One of only 500 copies, published at her own cost, this one with the original wrappers. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Tsvetaeva is, with Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova, Russia's most important modern poet. Tsvetaeva 'always carried everything she has to say to its conceivable and expressible end. 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' (Joseph Brodsky, quoted in Terras). This copy was previously in the collection of Lina Rudakova-Finkelshtein, and may have earlier belonged to her husband, the critic Sergei Rudakov (1909-1944) who befriended Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova in Voronezh. Terras, p.487.
Octavo (176 x 133mm, with deckle edges). Complete with the errata; printed throughout on heavy wove paper (occasional light marginal soiling). Contemporary Russian brocade with the original wrappers bound-in, wrappers printed in gold on blue paper stock, gilt spine label (light staining and spotting on the front wrapper; brocade rubbed at the extremities). Provenance: 'Shvarts' (title signature in blue ink in Arabic script) – Russian bookseller (printed ticket tipped in, dated 15 August 1942) – Polina Samoilovna Rudakova-Finkelshtein (1906-1977; sold to:) – Anatoly Byzov.
The rare first edition of the first book by one of the 20th-century preeminent poets. One of only 500 copies, published at her own cost, this one with the original wrappers. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Tsvetaeva is, with Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova, Russia's most important modern poet. Tsvetaeva 'always carried everything she has to say to its conceivable and expressible end. 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' (Joseph Brodsky, quoted in Terras). This copy was previously in the collection of Lina Rudakova-Finkelshtein, and may have earlier belonged to her husband, the critic Sergei Rudakov (1909-1944) who befriended Mandel'shtam and Akhmatova in Voronezh. Terras, p.487.
Octavo (176 x 133mm, with deckle edges). Complete with the errata; printed throughout on heavy wove paper (occasional light marginal soiling). Contemporary Russian brocade with the original wrappers bound-in, wrappers printed in gold on blue paper stock, gilt spine label (light staining and spotting on the front wrapper; brocade rubbed at the extremities). Provenance: 'Shvarts' (title signature in blue ink in Arabic script) – Russian bookseller (printed ticket tipped in, dated 15 August 1942) – Polina Samoilovna Rudakova-Finkelshtein (1906-1977; sold to:) – Anatoly Byzov.
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