May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Mandelstam, Osip. Tristia. 12mo, original wrappers with cover illustration and publisher's mark designed by M. V. Dobuzhinskii, some toning and light edgewear; ink presentation inscription from publisher on half-title. (IO). Petersburg: Petropolis; and Berlin, 1922

Additional Details

scarce first edition of mandelstam's second and most important work. Edited from rough drafts, the title was given to the collection by the poet Mikhail Kuzmin. Dobuzhinskii was a noted artist and promoter of the Russian design and aesthetic group, Mir Isskutsva. Rowell/Wye 377.