Svetlov-Fekula copy - one of 50 only |
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Title Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremya pokhoda 1829 goda. [Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]. |
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Published, Date Lifar, Paris, 1934. |
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Description Quarto (27 x 21 cm). 78 incl. first blank, half-title, frontispiece and title, [2] pp., including facsimile letters in Russian and French, head- and tailpieces, loose ad leaf inserted; discrete stamp 'Printed in France' on title. Publisher's printed wrappers by Dobuzhinskiy; a bit soiled, fore-edge of upper cover slightly creased. Provenance: Valerian Yakovlevich Svetlov (printed dedication); Paul M. Fekula (this copy as num. 5163 in his catalogue). |
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Note Fine copy of this private production, from the very rare edition of 50 copies only, each one bearing the printed name of the recipient. Another issue, without names, was limited to 200 copies. This copy was made for Valerian Svetlov, actually V. Ivchenko, an active supporter of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, involved in the organisation of the first season in 1909. After having published some of the best works on Russian ballet, he died in January 1934 - that is ten months before the printing of the present work: a rare example of posthumous dedication! With an introduction by Lifar and with a facsimile of Pushkin's notebook that Lifar acquired from a dealer in Paris. The notebook contains a handwritten introduction to "Travel to Arzrum" with the first two pages crossed out and not subsequently included in Pushkin's publication of the novel in Sovremennik in 1836. The wrappers were designed by R. M. Dobuzhinskiy, son of Mstislav. |
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Stock Number 86298 |
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