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PUSHKIN, Alexander – IAKOVLEV, Mikhail Luk’ianovich (editor). Opyt Ruskoi Anfologii ili izbrannye epigrammy, madrigaly, epitafii, nadpisi, apologi i nekotorye drugie melkie stikhotvoreniia . St Petersburg: by Ivan Slenin at the Press of the Department of National Education, 1828. 8° (127 x 98mm). Engraved additional title. (Margins with faint dampstain and light browning, two leaves with small chips in the margin.) Contemporary Russian half leather (rebacked preserving the original spine, corners and edges repaired). Provenance : ‘O. M. B.’ (perhaps Osip Brik, presentation inscription dated 24 August 1944 to:) – ‘Feliks’.
PUSHKIN, Alexander – IAKOVLEV, Mikhail Luk’ianovich (editor). Opyt Ruskoi Anfologii ili izbrannye epigrammy, madrigaly, epitafii, nadpisi, apologi i nekotorye drugie melkie stikhotvoreniia . St Petersburg: by Ivan Slenin at the Press of the Department of National Education, 1828. 8° (127 x 98mm). Engraved additional title. (Margins with faint dampstain and light browning, two leaves with small chips in the margin.) Contemporary Russian half leather (rebacked preserving the original spine, corners and edges repaired). Provenance : ‘O. M. B.’ (perhaps Osip Brik, presentation inscription dated 24 August 1944 to:) – ‘Feliks’. [ With :] IAKOVLEV, Mikhail Luk’ianovich (1798-1868). Autograph manuscript of three poems, ‘Korina’ and two others, one signed ‘M-l Iakovlev’, each one 16 lines of verse with numerous emendations, on two sides of one leaf, 8vo (shallow folding crease, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Includes the first publication of Pushkin’s ‘Russkomy Gessneru’, and the life-time publication of twenty of his poems, TOGETHER WITH THREE MANUSCRIPT POEMS by Iakovlev, Pushkin’s school friend, and the editor of this anthology. The two maintained a life-long friendship; recalling their days at the lyceum Pushkin addressed these lines to Iakovlev in ‘Piruiushchikh Studentakh’: “A ty, kotoryi s detskikh let / Odnim vesel’em dyshish’! / Zabavnyi, pravo, ty poet, / Khot’ plokho basni pishesh’!”; Iakovlev later helped Pushkin print his History of the Pugachev Rebellion. The front endpaper bears a verse gift inscription signed O.M.B – quite possibly the poet Osip Maksimovich Brik (1888-1945), co-founder with Mayakovsky of the avant-garde journal LEF. Rare: Worldcat locates just two copies, at the British Library, and UC Berkeley; ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction. Chereiskii, Pushkin i ego okruzhenie , pp.522-3; Smirnov-Sokol'skii Almanacs 296; Smirnov-Sokol’skii Pushkin 81.