Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich

Tristia

Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1972. Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav Valerianovich (iilustrator). Facsimile edition. Original publisher's wrappers. Item #371

Dimensions: 15.2 x 11.4 cm. 75 pages. Text in Russian. A very good and clean copy with minor foxing on the fore-edge. Facsimile edition of the "Petropolis" 1922 edition published in the United States.

Osip Mandelstam is one of Russia's most renowned and crucial poets arrested twice under Stalin's regime. He died of cold and exposure in Vladivostok shortly after his second arrest in 1938. "Tristia" is the poem from Mandelstam's second collection, published in 1922.

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