[ALL IN ONE] - [Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]

by NABOKOV, Vladimir, Anna AKHMATOVA, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al.

$1,900 · Offered by Biblio

The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set. Scarce complete set of all five issues of this important almanac, which printed, often for the first time, the works of censored Russian authors. As a result, it includes most of the best Russian authors and poets of the 20th century. Contents include especially: - Vol. I: Akhmatova, Poema bez geroia [Poem Without a Hero]: the first publication of Akhmatova's major work - Vol. II: 57 poems by Mandelshtam, and Nabokov, Two poems - Vol. III: Akhmatova, Nas chetvero ['Us Four', dedicated to Tsvetaeva), Mandelshtam, Tri epigrammy; Four novellas by Babel - Vol. IV: Pasternak, notes for the fantasy 'Poema o blizhnem'; Akhmatova, essay on Mandelshtam; Brodsky, Poems, Mandelshtam, Poems; with portraits plates of Pasternak, Akhmatova, Vsevolod Meyerhold; Stenograph from the first trial of Iosif Brodsky - Vol. V: Tsvetaeva, Perekop, Posmertny Podarok, Autobiography; Brodsky, Poems; Nabokov, poems. Provenance Robert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted collector of Russian, British and American literature works). Description Five volumes 8vo., complete with portrait plates. Binding All volumes in original wrappers. Condition Wrappers a bit stained, spine of vol. 3 sunned and rubbed; all volumes with clean pages. ref: [1354]

• Publisher: New York, 1960-67

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