M. Gor'kii. Rasskazy Mal'va T. III-II Folio Cyrillic Micrographic script portrait of Maxim Gorky

by S. B. Khazin, Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev, Engraver, Photographer

$4,500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Kiev: NP, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Size approx. 28 x 20 inches 50 x 70 cm . Rare micrographic portrait of Maxim Gorky composed from the letters of his short story Malva. The portrait was engraved by S. B. Khazin based on a photograph of the famous Russian author taken in Nizhny Novgorod by the Russian photographer Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev and printed by S. V. Kul'zhenko. Portrait passed by the censor in Kiev,

• Binding: Hardcover

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