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The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set
Publication: New York, 1960-67.
The first publication of Akhmatova’s ‘Poem Without a Hero’ [Poem bez geroia] – as well as many other works by some of the best Russian poets and authors of the 20th century: a complete set of this important literary almanac, rare so.
£1,500
In stock
Scarce complete set of all five issues of this important almanac, which printed, often for the first time, the works of censored Russian authors. As a result, it includes most of the best Russian authors and poets of the 20th century.
Contents include especially:
– Vol. I: Akhmatova, Poema bez geroia [Poem Without a Hero]: the first publication of Akhmatova’s major work
– Vol. II: 57 poems by Mandelshtam, and Nabokov, Two Poems
– Vol. III: Akhmatova, Nas chetvero [‘Us Four’, dedicated to Tsvetaeva), Mandelshtam, Tri epigrammy; Four novellas by Babel – Vol. IV: Pasternak, notes for the fantasy ‘Poema o blizhnem’; Akhmatova, essay on Mandelshtam; Brodsky, Poems, Mandelshtam, Poems; with portraits plates of Pasternak, Akhmatova, Vsevolod Meyerhold; Stenograph from the first trial of Iosif Brodsky
– Vol. V: Tsvetaeva, Perekop, Posmertny Podarok, Autobiography; Brodsky, poems; Nabokov, poems.
Provenance
Robert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted collector of Russian, British and American literature works).
Item number
1354
Five volumes 8vo., complete with portrait plates.
Binding
All volumes in original wrappers.
Condition
Wrappers a bit stained, spine of vol. 3 sunned and rubbed; all volumes with clean pages.
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