First prose work of the young Gogol
Publication: Pavel Svinin, Skt Peterburg, 1830.
First publication of the first prose work of the young Gogol, one of the greatest Russian authors. Very rare outside Russia and Ukraine.
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Rare first publication of the first prose work by one of the greatest Russian authors, a story later collected in his first masterpiece Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka.
It is published here anonymously, Gogol still smarting from the poor reception that his verse idyll Hans Kuechelgarten had received the previous year: Gogol had bought and destroyed every copy of that poem that he could find.
This volume of the important Russian literary magazine Otechestvennyia zapiski also includes issue number 117, for January 1830.
Provenance
Indistinct contemporary title signature and shelf mark; Bogoiavlenskii (stamp on title and boards); indistinct stamp of a Moscow institution; Latvijas PSR Zinatnu Akademija (stamp on title verso, with deaccession marks); Robert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted collector of Russian, British and American literature works).
Item number
1311
Three parts in one volume, 12mo (16.6 x 10 cm).
Binding
Contemporary Russian half calf, flat spine with red and black leather labels.
Condition
Binding rubbed, labels chipped, lower board with a large loss to the marbled paper, front pastedown lacking; title creased and stained, light scattered spotting, occasional short marginal tears and light soiling.
Lovely, crisp copy of this classic work on Russian trade, esp. interesting for its description of the North Pacific and Alaska - but also of the Black Sea and Ukraine. With German royal provenance.
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