Lot 421
Pushkin, Aleksander Sergeevich
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£813
Description
Brat'ya razboiniki... vtoroe izsanie [Robber brothers... second edition]. Moscow: Avgust Semen, 1827. 8vo, 12pp., printer's device on title-page, loose, without printed wrappers, slightly foxed
Footnote
Provenance: inscription in Russian on title-page; R.A. Longmire, Leningrad 1952, inscription on title-page verso
Note: Kilgour 881 (first and second editions). Second edition of Pushkin's tale, written in 1822 but first published by Semen in 1827.