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The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set

AKHMATOVA, Anna, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Vladimir NABOKOV, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al

Vozdushnye Puti

[Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]

Publication: New York, 1960-67.

AKHMATOVA, Anna, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Vladimir NABOKOV, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al, Vozdushnye Puti

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.

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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

 

Physical Description

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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