Lot 77
  • 77

Mandelstam, Osip.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Tristia. St Petersburg & Berlin, 1922
12mo (146 x 111mm.), one of 3000 copies, modern tan morocco, extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head

Literature

Hellyer 759; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 377

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

first edition. This second collection of poetry, composed between 1915 and 1922, was published shortly after Mandelstam moved from St Petersburg to Moscow with his new wife Nadezhda.