Rare books, manuscripts, autographs at auction "In the Nikita" on February 18
ARTinvestment.RU   12 февраля 2016

Among the 482 lots catalog — rare lifetime editions of Pushkin, pre-revolutionary military-исторические books, and a literary Museum of autographs

February 18, 2016 "House of antique books in Nikitsky" will auction No. 70, which will be presented to rare books, manuscripts, autographs.

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Open the directory section XVIII books — XIX centuries, which attracts the attention of lot 10 of "Story, published by Alexander Pushkin" (1834). The book sold badly, and in late 1836, the circulation decided to make part of the new edition of — "Novels and stories" (1837). The book "Tale, published by Alexander Pushkin" 1834 "leaked" on sale before its destruction in an amount not more than half a — two hundred copies and, of course, became one of the rarest books in his lifetime Pushkin.

the Organisers draw the attention of the public on a few rare military-исторических books.

"the Exploits of Russian warriors in the Caucasian countries from 1800 to 1834..." by Alexey Zubov (lot 12). The publication is presented in summary form: engraved publishing the cover.

"Notes on Moscow and on foreign accidents outcome from 1812 to 1815 half..." S. Glinka (lot 16). The book is published by the author for the 25th-летию Patriotic war of 1812 and interesting as the vivid memories of an eyewitness.

For collectors of autographs the auction house prepared a small literary Museum.

the Main attention here should be given to Marina Tsvetaeva, because her autograph two years ago at the auction house "three centuries" was sold for 7 500 000 rubles this time demanding the public will be offered a collection of "Portraits of Russian poets" compiled by Ilya Ehrenburg (lot 81). Autograph is an author's comments on the poem "Come to me..." and the author edited the text. Inscript dates from the end of may — by early June 1922, a time of fellowship M. Tsvetaeva with Ilya Ehrenburg in Berlin.

Poems, selected the best Solution for the collection of "Portraits of Russian poets", "returned" Tsvetaeva in happy time — beginning of 1915, when Sophia Parnok the poet acquainted with the literary publishers Petrograd-философского magazine "Northern Notes" Caccini S. I. and Y. L. Saker, published in June of the same year, one of the best cycles of Tsvetayeva's lyrics.

Two interesting manuscripts of Mikhail Zoshchenko presented in the section autographs. Manuscripts of short stories "Earthquake" in 1932 (lot 86) and "Funny story" of that year (lot 87) are versions of short stories with author's corrections that differ from the published canonical texts. These yellowed leaves have long been kept in the family archives of people's artist of the USSR I. V. Ilyinsky, who was himself Zoshchenko was called "the best reader" in his stories.

also deserve Attention: the manuscript unpublished poem by S. Marshak, dated 1952 and dedicated to the birth of a son, I. V. Ilyinsky (lot 89), new year greetings Marc Chagall addressed the unique creative pair — Maya Plisetskaya and R. Shchedrin (lots 95 and 97).

Vladimir Vysotsky addressed the autograph of brothers Weiner on the title page of the book "Era of mercy" (lot 487): "Volodya Vysotsky, / wonderful / poet / artist / person and the man — / with love!".

the bidders will be able to compete for autographs by A. Maykov, Z. Gippius, Sun. Meyerhold and other prominent personalities.

In section "Books Russian avant-garde" the auction house noted a well-known collection of Russian futurists "Dead moon" (lot 219), containing works by the most prominent representatives of this trend, as well as poems V. Shershenevitch and K. Bolshakov;, a collection of poems, prose and articles "slap in the face to public taste," 1912 (lot 193), is notable because it first appeared in print V. Mayakovsky. Fans of creativity of Vladimir Mayakovsky'll find the autograph of the poet in the book "Man: the Thing" (lot 267), the cover of which was made by the poet himself, and the second edition, without censorship, "Cloud in trousers" Mayakovsky wrote: "it is my Duty to restore and to promulgate this distorted and obessilennaya pre-revolutionary censorship book." In addition, of interest are the book by A. Kruchenykh "the devil and the neologists" (lot 205) and "the Robber Vanka-Каин..." (lot 339).

In the auction catalogue presents several lifetime editions of Sergei Yesenin, among them the unique hand-coloured copy of the book "Jesus Infant" (lot 264).

Auction # 70 "Rare books, manuscripts, autographs and pictures" will take place on 18th February 2016 in the hall of "House of antique books in Nikitsky" at the address: Moscow, Nikita lane, 4A, page 1. Start of trading in 19:00.

Accepting absentee bids until 17:00 on 18 February 2016.

Online-участие in the auction: vnikitskom.bidspirit.com.

Source: press-релиз "House of antique books in Nikitsky"