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SOLOGUB, Fedor [Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov]. (Ed. Stephen Graham).
| Title | The Sweet-Scented Name: and other fairy tales, fables and stories. Edited by Stephen Graham. Constable’s Russian Library. |
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| Publisher | London Constable and Company |
| Date | 1915 |
| Book ID | 37940 |
Description
First British edition. Original green cloth, contemporary (1915) Times Literary Supplement review loosely inside (the other side of which gives the review of Pougin’s ‘A Short History of Russian Music). xii+240+4pp.. Publisher’s list.
A very nice bright copy in original green cloth, gilt lettered spine very slightly cocked. Cloth a little bubbled to upper board, spine ends bruised, else very good. No dust-wrapper.
One of some six volumes published by Constable in their Russian series between 1915 and 1918. Short stories by some of the most avant-garde and important literary figures of the time collected and edited by Stephen Graham, traveller, author and Russophile. Фёдор Сологу́б, Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov (1863-1927). “The most versatile of the Russian ‘decadents’ and Symbolists.
Rayfield in Cornwall (1998), Terras 433 (1985).
