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Auction archive: Lot number 114

PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960) and others. - Lirika. Pervyi almanakh [Lyrics. First Almanach].

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,541 - US$3,388
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 114

PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960) and others. - Lirika. Pervyi almanakh [Lyrics. First Almanach].

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,541 - US$3,388
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Lirika. Pervyi almanakh [Lyrics. First Almanach].
Moscow: [Lirika], 1913. 97 pp. 8vo (180 x 125 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Sergei Bobrov. Condition : spine and back wrapper replaced; ink inscription on front wrapper. first book to contain poetry by the 1958 noble prize winner . With five poems (pp. 41-45) by the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957) and additional contributions by Nikolai Assev (1889-1963), Sergei Bobrov (1889-1971), Aleksei Sidorov (1891-1978) and others. Originally educated as a composer in Moscow and then a philosopher at Marburg University in Germany, Pasternak devoted his life to literature after returning to Moscow during the winter of 1913-1914. "Lirika" was the name of both a short-lived group of poets to whom Pasternak belonged and their publishing company. Lirika was the only collection they issued. The eight poets each contributed five poems to the anthology. Pasternak published his first collection of poetry the following year.

Auction archive: Lot number 114
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Lirika. Pervyi almanakh [Lyrics. First Almanach].
Moscow: [Lirika], 1913. 97 pp. 8vo (180 x 125 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Sergei Bobrov. Condition : spine and back wrapper replaced; ink inscription on front wrapper. first book to contain poetry by the 1958 noble prize winner . With five poems (pp. 41-45) by the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957) and additional contributions by Nikolai Assev (1889-1963), Sergei Bobrov (1889-1971), Aleksei Sidorov (1891-1978) and others. Originally educated as a composer in Moscow and then a philosopher at Marburg University in Germany, Pasternak devoted his life to literature after returning to Moscow during the winter of 1913-1914. "Lirika" was the name of both a short-lived group of poets to whom Pasternak belonged and their publishing company. Lirika was the only collection they issued. The eight poets each contributed five poems to the anthology. Pasternak published his first collection of poetry the following year.

Auction archive: Lot number 114
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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