NADSON, S. Ya. Семён Яковлевич Надсон. (1862-1887).

8vo., contemporary attractive bi-coloured cloth highly decorated in gilt in Stil Modern Стиль модерн (Art Nouveau). Marbled fore-edges, floral endpapers. Portrait frontis., 1 facsimile. Text in Russian. A lovely copy. Clean and tight. Appears unread. Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson, noted for being the first Jewish poet to achieve national fame in Russia. Despite publishing only one book of poems, he enjoyed significant success. He died of tuberculosis in Yalta in 1887 aged only 24.