Antique Russian Nadson Biography ~ M.V. Watson ~ Scarce Pre-Revolutionary Ed. For Sale

You get the exact book in the photos.
Condition:Poor to Fair,as shown.Missing cover and preliminaries(decorative typography and Nadson portrait absent). Pages areyellowed, brittle, and torn, with frayed edges and spine damage. Gatherings are loose or partially detached.Despite wear, thetext remains readableand retains its historical resonance.
📚Provenance:Part of a privately curated collection of philosophy, Orthodox Christian, émigré and Cold War-era literature.

📖Antique Russian Nadson Biography ~ M.V. Watson ~ Scarce Pre-Revolutionary Ed.

📘 This antique Russian literary volume features the biographical sketch of poet Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson, authored by M.V. Watson, alongside selections of Nadson’s poetry and related works. Nadson (1862–1887) was one of the most influential poets of late 19th-century Russia, whose early death inspired widespread tributes across the literary world.

• Content: Includes Watson’s biography of Nadson, elegiac poems, and prose reflections from Nadson and contemporaries such as S. Antонов and S.Z. Туржанский.
• Language: Printed in pre-revolutionary Russian orthography (ѣ, ъ endings), adding linguistic and historical significance.
• Pagination: The first surviving numbered page is IV (likely from the introduction or preface), and the last page is 48, confirming this is a partial survival of the original bound antique Russian books featuring Nadson’s biography are considered scarce and highly collectible, especially among collectors of Russian Silver Age poetry, Imperial-era literature, and pre-revolutionary cultural artifacts. This fragmentary survival offers a poignant glimpse into the literary and cultural transitions of late Imperial Russia.

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