Vadim

by Mikhail Lermontov, Helena Goscilo

£125 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

Michigan: Ardis Publishers, 1984. Romantic Novel FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp.169 7 . Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Internally clean, some dustiness to top edge. Near fine. Lermontov is best known as Russia's greatest poet after Pushkin. Vadim, is Lermontov's first prose work. It is the prototypical Romantic novel; both in its style and its characters. Vadim is the only significant prose

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