989 - MANDELSHTAM OSIP (1891-1938)

MANDELSHTAM OSIP (1891-1938) Voronezhskie tetradi [Voronezh Notebooks] / [text edited, with notes and an afterword by V. Schweitzer]. [Ann Arbor]: Ardis, 1980. 139, [5] pp.: portraits, photographs; 19 x 13 cm. Print run of 2,000 copies. Publisher’s printed wrapper. Very good condition. Slight fading to the edges of the wrapper. The ‘Voronezh Notebooks’ are a collection of poems written and compiled during Mandelshtam’s exile in Voronezh (1934-1937), to which he was sent for his anti-Stalin epigram ‘We live, not feeling the country beneath us...’. From the publisher’s note: ‘In this edition the ‘Voronezh Notebooks’ are published for the first time as a unified whole, as a book, in the form conceived by Mandelshtam himself. Most of the texts have been checked and corrected against Mandelshtam’s manuscripts preserved at Princeton University. Several humorous poems from the Voronezh period and all the variants of ‘Verses on the Unknown Soldier’ are published here for the first time’. Upon the buyer’s request, we are pleased to provide a general condition report for the Lot described above. However, as we are not professional conservators or restorers, we strongly advise prospective buyers to conduct their own inspection or consult a specialist or restorer of their choice for a comprehensive professional assessment. Any condition descriptions provided in the catalogue or through any correspondence are for guidance only and should not be considered a substitute for a firsthand evaluation. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD ‘AS IS’ IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE PUBLISHED IN THE CATALOGUE.