The Birth of the Gods
MEREZHKOVSKY, Dmitri S.
Translated from the Russian by Natalie A. Duddington. [Introduction by the Author. First English Edition].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Dent, [1926]
Stock code: 33189
Price: £220.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title, a few early leaves lightly spotted; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned (but lettering just legible) at backstrip.
With illustrated personal bookplate on front paste-down. Cover design, title-page and initial letters were designed for this edition by Reginald L. Knowles. First published by Plamja in Prague in 1925. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.