Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

8vo (185 x 113mm.), vii-xii, 192pp., modern burgundy buckram, lacking pp.i-vi (including title-page), pp.15-20 and 127-128 torn and crudely repaired (affecting text), several pages torn without loss of text (but with loss of some blank sections), pp.35-36 torn and crudely repaired with slight loss of text, pp.155-156 torn (just touching text), slight foxing throughout; sold not subject to return

Kilgour 878; Fekula 5139

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first edition of Pushkin's collected poems, most of which were originally published in journals. In 1820 Pushkin had used the manuscript as a stake for a game of cards, which he lost, but he managed to buy the manuscript back and revise it for publication. The edition of 1200 copies was sold out in two months.