Chekhov at his best
Publication: A.F.Marks, Skt Peterburg, 1901.
£3,500
First separate edition of this major play, very rare.
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The rare first separate edition of ‘the profoundest and most effective of Chekhov’s plays’ (Simmons).
WorldCat locates no copy in any public collection worldwide; not in Kilgour.
Stanislavsky directed the first production of Three Sisters, which opened in Moscow on 31 January 1901. The text first appeared in the February 1901 issue of the periodical Russkaia Mysl’. Marks published two further editions in the same year, which are sometimes confused with this first edition; all three editions are rare. The copy in the Library of Congress (the Yudin copy) is from the second edition.
Provenance
Ivan Nikolaevich Istomin (binding, small stamp in the title and in each gathering); Russian bookseller (printed description mounted to front pastedown); Eden Martin, prominent American collector.
Bibliography
Simmons, p.522.
Item number
1305
Octavo (19 x 13.3 cm).
Binding
Contemporary quarter leather over green cloth, contrasting label lettered in gilt, author’s name and owner’s initials in blind at the spine ends.
Condition
Spine caps chipped, light soiling and light wear; short marginal tear in the title; lightly yellowed; occasional light soiling.
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