MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938). Kamen’. Pervaia kniga stikhov. [The Stone. First book of verse]. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. In the original wrappers – the third, enlarged edition of the author’s first book of verse. Kamen’ was first published in 1913. In the same year, Mandel'shtam also wrote a manifesto of Acmeism, after joining the Poets’ Guild, a new literary group led by N. Gumilev. His early poetry was ‘technically elegant, full of original perceptions and striking details…concerned with the precise depiction of human culture’ (Terras). Kamen’ brought him instant success; in 1916 it was reprinted in an enlarged version, to which the poet added further poems for the third edition. The third also displayed ‘a more colourful and modernist front cover’ (Martin). Not in Kilgour. V. Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature , p. 271. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandelshtam’, Caxtonian , 24 (2006), p. 6. Octavo (180 x 125mm). With the final advertisements (marginal stain to two leaves, uniform slight age yellowing, title a trifle browned). In the original wrappers, in modern folding box (edges and joints repaired). Provenance: stamp ‘Biblioteka Bragina’ (title) – indistinct modern library stamp (rear wrapper).
MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938). Kamen’. Pervaia kniga stikhov. [The Stone. First book of verse]. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1923. In the original wrappers – the third, enlarged edition of the author’s first book of verse. Kamen’ was first published in 1913. In the same year, Mandel'shtam also wrote a manifesto of Acmeism, after joining the Poets’ Guild, a new literary group led by N. Gumilev. His early poetry was ‘technically elegant, full of original perceptions and striking details…concerned with the precise depiction of human culture’ (Terras). Kamen’ brought him instant success; in 1916 it was reprinted in an enlarged version, to which the poet added further poems for the third edition. The third also displayed ‘a more colourful and modernist front cover’ (Martin). Not in Kilgour. V. Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature , p. 271. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandelshtam’, Caxtonian , 24 (2006), p. 6. Octavo (180 x 125mm). With the final advertisements (marginal stain to two leaves, uniform slight age yellowing, title a trifle browned). In the original wrappers, in modern folding box (edges and joints repaired). Provenance: stamp ‘Biblioteka Bragina’ (title) – indistinct modern library stamp (rear wrapper).
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