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TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941). Vol'shebnyi fonar. Vtoraia kniga stikhov. [The Magic Lantern. Second Book of Verse.] Moscow: Ole-Lukoie, 1912.
The rare first edition, in the original velvet binding and in the original slipcase. This copy has an original photographic print tipped-in, showing young Marina and her sister Anastasia, and suggesting that this copy may have once been in the Tsvetaeva or Efron families. Tsvetaeva's second book is dedicated to Sergei Efron, whom she had married in January of the same year. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. One of 500 copies published, some of these also found bound in red velvet.
Octavo (119 x 91mm). Extra-illustrated with a photographic print of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, tipped to the front free endpaper. Original blue velvet, blue edges, decorative endpapers printed in blue and gold with a repeating floral pattern, original card slipcase covered in paper matching the endpapers, full-length spine label printed in black on white paper (velvet spine evenly faded to grey; slipcase spine split). Provenance: Alexandre Polonsky, Paris (sold to:) – Anatoly Byzov (purchased from him January 1999).
The rare first edition, in the original velvet binding and in the original slipcase. This copy has an original photographic print tipped-in, showing young Marina and her sister Anastasia, and suggesting that this copy may have once been in the Tsvetaeva or Efron families. Tsvetaeva's second book is dedicated to Sergei Efron, whom she had married in January of the same year. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. One of 500 copies published, some of these also found bound in red velvet.
Octavo (119 x 91mm). Extra-illustrated with a photographic print of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, tipped to the front free endpaper. Original blue velvet, blue edges, decorative endpapers printed in blue and gold with a repeating floral pattern, original card slipcase covered in paper matching the endpapers, full-length spine label printed in black on white paper (velvet spine evenly faded to grey; slipcase spine split). Provenance: Alexandre Polonsky, Paris (sold to:) – Anatoly Byzov (purchased from him January 1999).
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