Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

8vo (210 x 130mm.), half-title, a remboitage of contemporary red roan with large central blind-stamped panel and gilt roll-tooled border, original printed wrappers bound in, occasional light spotting, half-title and wrappers soiled and repaired in gutter, a few other leaves repaired in gutter, lacking lower half of spine, binding rubbed

Kilgour 883

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First edition of Pushkin's narrative poem about Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Cossack who participated in the Battle of Poltava, which formed the basis for Tchaikovsky's opera Mazepa. Pushkin's inspiration partly came from Byron's romantic treatment of the same subject in 1819.