![]() ![]() ![]() This is almost certainly the last great private collection of Russian literature to come out of America, and one of the last opportunities to acquire genuine rarities in this field.’ Here, we present 10 highlights.ġ. First edition in English, introducing Dostoevsky to British readers on a large scale for the first time, a gorgeous copy. ![]() Eden Martin’s Collection of Russian literary first editions and manuscripts in London on 28 November is, says Christie’s specialist Sven Becker, ‘the most important to take place outside of Russia since the Diaghilev-Lifar auction more than 30 years ago. The collector likens the first edition of a great story or poem to ‘a new-born infant at the earliest stage of its cultural life.’ A first edition of Pushkin’s Ruslan and Liudmila, he says , ‘has a fascination about it as great as one of the Wright brothers’ early airplanes, or the first Apple I assembled circuit boards.’ ‘Books are the lifeblood of our cultural heritage.’ ‘Seeing, handling, turning the pages of a first edition of Pushkin or Dostoevsky or Akhmatova is compellingly - even magnetically - engaging,’ states Chicago lawyer and renowned collector of Russian literature Robert Eden Martin. The Idiot A Novel in Four Parts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky First American edition of the Constance Garnett translation New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. ![]()
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