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Evgenii Onegin [Eugene Onegin].
Brussels: Editions Petropolis, [1937]. By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Illustrated by M. Dobuzhinsky. Edited by Vladislav F. Khodasevich. 242 pp., 8vo (250 x 193 mm). Uncut. Original decorated yellow wrappers. Condition: minor wear to original glassine wrappers. One of 600 copies. Lithuanian-born M. V. Dobuzhinsky was one of the founding members of Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group and an important illustrator of the Silver Age. He was also Vladimir Nabokov’s drawing teacher. He left for Lithuania after the Revolution and emigrated to England and finally settled in the United States where he died. This newly illustrated edition of Pushkin’s famous novel in verse was issued to commemorate the centenary of the poet’s death in a duel. [Together with 5 other works illustrated by Dobuzhinsky:] Plen [Captivity] . By Konstantin Erberg. Petersburg: “Alkonost,” 1918. 159 pp., 4to (170 x 130 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Condition : wrappers soiled. Inscribed by the author to E. Gollerbach in 1920. Chelovek s geraniem [The Man with the Geranium]. By V. Korchemnyi. Paris: Vozrozhdenie, 1927. Small 8vo (185 x 115 mm). Original wrappers designed by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Condition : pencil marks on wrappers and spine partially splitting. Prelude to Ballet. A Guide to Appreciation. By Arnold Haskell. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936. Decorations by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Small 8vo (185 x 125 mm). Blue cloth with original dust jacket. Condition: soiling and browning of jacket and endpapers. “This is the first English text to be decorated by him” (p. 114). Evgeny Onegin. By Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. London: The Pushkin Press, [1946]. Fourth printing. Translated by Oliver Elton. Foreword by Desmond MacCarthy. Decorations by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. 8vo (220 x 140 mm). Navy blue cloth with original dust jacket designed by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Condition: inner hinges split; contemporary inscription. Slovo polku Igoreve [A Word about Igor’s Army]. [New York: Novyi Zhurnal,] 1950. Edited by G. Golokhvastov. Illustrated by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Small 8vo (185 x 135 mm). Condition: ex-library copy with library stamps. Lithuanian-born M. V. Dobuzhinsky was one of the founding members of Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group and an important illustrator of the Silver Age. He was also Vladimir Nabokov’s drawing teacher. He left for Lithuania after the Revolution and emigrated to England and finally settled in the United States where he died. This newly illustrated edition of Pushkin’s famous novel in verse was issued to commemorate the centenary of the poet’s death in a duel. (6)