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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.
Rare first edition, in the original velvet binding and in the original slipcase. Tsvetaeva's second book is dedicated to Sergei Efron, whom she had married in January of the same year. RBH and ABPC record a single copy at auction. One of 500 copies published, some of these also found bound in red or blue velvet.
Octavo (119 x 91mm). Original brown velvet, red 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 (hinges cracked but holding, front endpaper detached, very light wear to the edges of the velvet cover; slipcase lightly worn).
Rare first edition, in the original velvet binding and in the original slipcase. Tsvetaeva's second book is dedicated to Sergei Efron, whom she had married in January of the same year. RBH and ABPC record a single copy at auction. One of 500 copies published, some of these also found bound in red or blue velvet.
Octavo (119 x 91mm). Original brown velvet, red 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 (hinges cracked but holding, front endpaper detached, very light wear to the edges of the velvet cover; slipcase lightly worn).
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