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[PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR], FIRST EDITION OF POLTAVA, 1829 ,
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr (Russian 1799-1837). Poltava, Saint Petersburg: [Press of the Department of Popular Instruction], 1829. First edition. Rebacked with half leather binding, older spine preserved. 12mo (187 x 125 mm), 91 pages. Margins trimmed.
LITERATURE N. Smirnov-Sokolsky Rasskazy o prizhiznennykh izdaniyakh Pushkina, (Moscow: Izdatelstvo vsesoyuznoy knizhnoy palaty, 1962), p. 18
LOT NOTES Another copy of this rare book is a part of the Kilgour collection of Russian literature (1750-1920) at Harvard College Library. Ref.: The Kilgour Collection of Russian Literature (Cambridge: The Harvard University Press, 1959), p. 883