![GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (1886-1921). Ditia Allakha. Arabskaia skazka v trekh kartinakh. // Apollon. n.6-7. [The Child of Allah. An Arabian tale in three tableaux. // Apollon. n.6-7]. [with] An offprint of the same. St Peterburg: [S. Makovskii], 1917.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0111_001(gumilev_nikolai_stepanovich_ditia_allakha_arabskaia_skazka_v_trekh_kar121853).jpg?w=1)
![GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (1886-1921). Ditia Allakha. Arabskaia skazka v trekh kartinakh. // Apollon. n.6-7. [The Child of Allah. An Arabian tale in three tableaux. // Apollon. n.6-7]. [with] An offprint of the same. St Peterburg: [S. Makovskii], 1917.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0111_000(gumilev_nikolai_stepanovich_ditia_allakha_arabskaia_skazka_v_trekh_kar121832).jpg?w=1)
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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (1886-1921). Ditia Allakha. Arabskaia skazka v trekh kartinakh. // Apollon. n.6-7. [The Child of Allah. An Arabian tale in three tableaux. // Apollon. n.6-7]. [with] An offprint of the same. St Peterburg: [S. Makovskii], 1917.
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers – the first appearance in print of this short dramatic piece. It was published in the journal Apollon, the periodical of the modernist movement established in 1909 and discontinued after 1917. It featured works by major authors like A. Blok, A. Akhmatova and O. Mandelshtam, enlivened with superb illustrations by numerous artists including Léon Bankst and Boris Kustodiev. In 1913, it published the official Acmeist manifesto. Intended for puppet theatre, The Child of Allah is ‘possibly his most beautifully written work in dramatic form, with its mixture of humour, fantasy and elegant stylisation’ of versification and motifs embracing even Persian and Malayan poetry (Barratt). The first vol. also includes a review of Gumilev’s Kolchan by the critic M. Tumpovskaia. Not in Kilgour. Barratt & Russell, Russian Theatre, p. 115.
2 volumes, quarto (255 x 195mm). With loose journal advertisement, colour and black-and-white photographic illustrations, (a trifle yellowed or spotted, edges dusty, some unopened, very light water stain to upper margin of first few leaves, throughout in vol. 2, 1: title slightly browned, 2: last leaf mounted, recto of first and verso of last leaf a bit soiled). 1: in the original stamped wrappers, 2: modern wrappers (1: extremities repaired, edges a bit worn). Provenance: 2: Nikolai Gumilev (dedication on first leaf) – Alexander Ippolitovich Kuprianov – 2: indistinct stamp (last leaf).
Presentation copy, in the original wrappers – the first appearance in print of this short dramatic piece. It was published in the journal Apollon, the periodical of the modernist movement established in 1909 and discontinued after 1917. It featured works by major authors like A. Blok, A. Akhmatova and O. Mandelshtam, enlivened with superb illustrations by numerous artists including Léon Bankst and Boris Kustodiev. In 1913, it published the official Acmeist manifesto. Intended for puppet theatre, The Child of Allah is ‘possibly his most beautifully written work in dramatic form, with its mixture of humour, fantasy and elegant stylisation’ of versification and motifs embracing even Persian and Malayan poetry (Barratt). The first vol. also includes a review of Gumilev’s Kolchan by the critic M. Tumpovskaia. Not in Kilgour. Barratt & Russell, Russian Theatre, p. 115.
2 volumes, quarto (255 x 195mm). With loose journal advertisement, colour and black-and-white photographic illustrations, (a trifle yellowed or spotted, edges dusty, some unopened, very light water stain to upper margin of first few leaves, throughout in vol. 2, 1: title slightly browned, 2: last leaf mounted, recto of first and verso of last leaf a bit soiled). 1: in the original stamped wrappers, 2: modern wrappers (1: extremities repaired, edges a bit worn). Provenance: 2: Nikolai Gumilev (dedication on first leaf) – Alexander Ippolitovich Kuprianov – 2: indistinct stamp (last leaf).
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