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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). Kavkazskii plennik, povest'. [A Prisoner of the Caucasus]. St Petersburg: N. Grech, 1822.
The rare first edition of this early Pushkin masterpiece. RBH and ABPC record only three copies having sold at auction (one, the Diaghilev-Lifar copy, lacking the portrait). Smirnov-Sokol'skii remarks that this work 'delighted the reading public' and sold out very quickly – even if Pushkin himself was somewhat dismissive of it, as was often the case when he wrote to friends about recently finished works. Kilgour 875; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 2.
Octavo (200 x 130mm). With the engraved portrait by Egor Geitman and with the half-title (portrait foxed with some marginal staining, title with two small paper repairs -probably following paper flaws- and a minute hole, some light spotting especially to initial leaves, lower outer corners lightly browned, a few spots, two closed short tears to the last leaf). Contemporary half calf, spine tooled in blind, marbled covers to boards (light surface wear; possible removal of sticker or bookplate from front paste-down).
The rare first edition of this early Pushkin masterpiece. RBH and ABPC record only three copies having sold at auction (one, the Diaghilev-Lifar copy, lacking the portrait). Smirnov-Sokol'skii remarks that this work 'delighted the reading public' and sold out very quickly – even if Pushkin himself was somewhat dismissive of it, as was often the case when he wrote to friends about recently finished works. Kilgour 875; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 2.
Octavo (200 x 130mm). With the engraved portrait by Egor Geitman and with the half-title (portrait foxed with some marginal staining, title with two small paper repairs -probably following paper flaws- and a minute hole, some light spotting especially to initial leaves, lower outer corners lightly browned, a few spots, two closed short tears to the last leaf). Contemporary half calf, spine tooled in blind, marbled covers to boards (light surface wear; possible removal of sticker or bookplate from front paste-down).
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