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[PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837).] 'Obiavlenie o rozyske avtora'… [Announcement of the Search for the Author…] [In:] Vestnik Evropy No. 7, 8. [The Herald of Europe. No. 7-8]. Moscow: University Press, 1814.
The published letter asking for the author’s identity behind Pushkin’s penname to be revealed, with the original wrappers. It appeared at the end of part 8 of this prestigious literary journal, signed ‘from the publisher’. The message requested that the author of ‘K drugu stikhotvortsu’, the first piece (signed ‘Aleksandr N.k.sh.p.’) by Pushkin ever to appear in print, in the same journal a few months earlier [see previous lot], should reveal his true identity to the editors. The reason was that they were not allowed ‘to print works whose authors do not reveal to us their names and addresses’; it specified that these data would not be disclosed to the public. RBH records no other copies being offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin, 45 and p.484.
Two parts in one volume, octavo (221 x 132mm). (Occasional ink marks, edges softened, light waterstaining to four quires, a little spotting, 1: first leaf and another repaired). Modern half calf, marbled boards, with the original wrappers preserved within, spine gilt lettered and blind tooled (wrappers a little soiled, reinforced at gutter). Provenance: ‘Statist. Otdel. Soveta Min. Vnutr. Del. N.164’ (Cyrillic ex-libris, verso of first wrapper) – 20th-century casemarks (on first leaf of each part).
The published letter asking for the author’s identity behind Pushkin’s penname to be revealed, with the original wrappers. It appeared at the end of part 8 of this prestigious literary journal, signed ‘from the publisher’. The message requested that the author of ‘K drugu stikhotvortsu’, the first piece (signed ‘Aleksandr N.k.sh.p.’) by Pushkin ever to appear in print, in the same journal a few months earlier [see previous lot], should reveal his true identity to the editors. The reason was that they were not allowed ‘to print works whose authors do not reveal to us their names and addresses’; it specified that these data would not be disclosed to the public. RBH records no other copies being offered at auction. Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin, 45 and p.484.
Two parts in one volume, octavo (221 x 132mm). (Occasional ink marks, edges softened, light waterstaining to four quires, a little spotting, 1: first leaf and another repaired). Modern half calf, marbled boards, with the original wrappers preserved within, spine gilt lettered and blind tooled (wrappers a little soiled, reinforced at gutter). Provenance: ‘Statist. Otdel. Soveta Min. Vnutr. Del. N.164’ (Cyrillic ex-libris, verso of first wrapper) – 20th-century casemarks (on first leaf of each part).
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