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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Podsnezhnik. [Snowdrop.] St Petersburg: [by Delvig and Somov] at the press of the Department of Foreign Trade, 1829.
The first edition of this rare almanac published by Pushkin’s friend Delvig. It includes the first publication of two poems by Pushkin: 'Primety' and 'Literaturnoe isvestie'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates no copy outside of Russia. Obol’ianinov 2110; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin, pp.568-69; Vereshchagin 706.
Octavo (128 x 95mm). Additional engraved title, engraved portrait of Pushkin by Utkin after Kiprenskii, two engraved leaves of music by Glinka (the leaves of engraved music supplied from another copy and laid in; the portrait is tipped in, slightly shorter than the text block and possibly supplied; some spotting on the engraved title; occasional marginal soiling; faint marginal dampstain in the first and last leaves). Contemporary Russian quarter calf, flat spine gilt in compartments (joints neatly repaired; rear pastedown sometime renewed). Provenance: V. Sh. (Cyrillic cipher on the front free endpaper) – Russian booksellers (small stamps on rear endpapers).
The first edition of this rare almanac published by Pushkin’s friend Delvig. It includes the first publication of two poems by Pushkin: 'Primety' and 'Literaturnoe isvestie'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction; WorldCat locates no copy outside of Russia. Obol’ianinov 2110; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Pushkin, pp.568-69; Vereshchagin 706.
Octavo (128 x 95mm). Additional engraved title, engraved portrait of Pushkin by Utkin after Kiprenskii, two engraved leaves of music by Glinka (the leaves of engraved music supplied from another copy and laid in; the portrait is tipped in, slightly shorter than the text block and possibly supplied; some spotting on the engraved title; occasional marginal soiling; faint marginal dampstain in the first and last leaves). Contemporary Russian quarter calf, flat spine gilt in compartments (joints neatly repaired; rear pastedown sometime renewed). Provenance: V. Sh. (Cyrillic cipher on the front free endpaper) – Russian booksellers (small stamps on rear endpapers).
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