MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938), DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav (1875-1957). Primus. Detskie stikhotvoreniia. [Primus. Children’s verse]. Leningrad: Vremia, 1925. First edition of this rare avant-garde children’s book. Primus is one of the four handsomely illustrated children’s books of verse produced by Mandel’shtam in 1925-26. They are ‘now quite scarce – for the same reason that popular children’s books frequently fail to survive […] in the West’ (Martin). WorldCat locates only two copies outside Russia. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandel’shtam’, Caxtonian , 24 (2006), p. 8. Quarto (260 x 210mm). With lithographed illustrations throughout (some age browning, edges a bit frayed, scattered stains to few leaves, text block detached). In the original wrappers (slightly browned, few small tears to spine).
MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938), DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav (1875-1957). Primus. Detskie stikhotvoreniia. [Primus. Children’s verse]. Leningrad: Vremia, 1925. First edition of this rare avant-garde children’s book. Primus is one of the four handsomely illustrated children’s books of verse produced by Mandel’shtam in 1925-26. They are ‘now quite scarce – for the same reason that popular children’s books frequently fail to survive […] in the West’ (Martin). WorldCat locates only two copies outside Russia. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandel’shtam’, Caxtonian , 24 (2006), p. 8. Quarto (260 x 210mm). With lithographed illustrations throughout (some age browning, edges a bit frayed, scattered stains to few leaves, text block detached). In the original wrappers (slightly browned, few small tears to spine).
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