[ALL IN ONE] - [Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]: Vozdushnye Puti.
by NABOKOV, Vladimir, Anna AKHMATOVA, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al
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About This Item
The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set.
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).
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. ref: [1354]
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Details
- Bookseller
- PY Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1354
- Title
- [ALL IN ONE] - [Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir, Anna AKHMATOVA, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York, 1960-67
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature, russian, russe, russie, Russland, edition originale, Erstausgabe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature: Russian and neighbors; 20th century: avant-garde and dissidence;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Wrappers
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- Spine
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...