[Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich]--Fedorov, Boris Mikhailovich, editor.

8vo (127 x 92mm.), folding facsimile letter at end, original engraved card front cover bound in, modern binding with cloth spine and patterned paper lower cover retaining early decorated cloth upper cover and original pink waxed paper endleaves, gilt edges, in original printed card slipcase, some light spotting, a few page edges frayed and carefully repaired, slipcase rubbed and repaired

Kilgour 813

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Boris Mikhailovich Fedorov, the editor, included in this collection half a dozen of Pushkin's early poems without the writer's permission. Pushkin objected to their publication, perhaps because he felt that the elegiac tone of these juvenilia were not in keeping with the mature and authoritative poetic voice he had developed through the 1820s, as much as Fedorov's affrontery in not seeking his permission to publish. The poems are: Romans, Zhelanie, Zazdravnyi kubok, Favn i pastushka, Zhivopisi and Son (Otryvok), all of which were probably composed in the period 1813-1820; this is the first appearance in print of these poems.