The Golden Cockerel – Alexander Pushkin, Edmund Dulac (signed)

S$250.00

The Golden Cockerel – Alexander Pushkin, Edmund Dulac (signed)

S$250.00

Title: The Golden Cockerel

Author: Alexander Pushkin, Edmund Dulac (illus.)

Publisher: The Limited Editions Club. No date, research reveals it to be circa 1950.

Condition: Hardcover, with slipcase. Very good. Signed by Edmund Dulac. Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this is copy 1151. Book cover and slipcase faded, but interior in fine condition. With a loose outer cover, and a second cover which binds the book together. A tall, thin book.

About the book (from Wikipedia):

The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (Russian: «Сказка о золотом петушке», translit. Skazka o zolotom petushke) is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya (Library for Reading) in 1835. While not officially based on any specific fairy tale, a number of similar stories were later revealed by scholars, most famously by Anna Akhmatova in her 1933 essay Pushkin’s Last Fairy Tale. Among the influences named were the Legend of the Arabian Astrologer from Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving, Der goldene Hahn (1785) by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and Kaib (1792) by Ivan Krylov. In turn, all of them borrowed from the ancient Copts legend first translated by the French Arabist Pierre Vattier in 1666 using the 1584 manuscript from the collection of Cardinal Mazarin.

About Pushkin (from Wikipedia):

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.