LUNACHARKSII, Anatolii Vaslievich.
Piat’ farsov dlia liubitelei [Five farces for amateurs].
St Petersburg, “Shipovnik”, 1907.
8vo, pp. 121, [7, index and ads]; some spotting to title-page and last few leaves, but a good copy in the original purple printed paper wrappers, front joint loose, spine chipped and worn.
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Piat’ farsov dlia liubitelei [Five farces for amateurs].
Very rare first edition of five early plays, written for amateur performance, but rarely staged: ‘Sverkhchelovek’ (Superman), ‘Esche skvernyi anekdot’ (Another nasty anecdote), ‘Beglyi politik’ (The fugitive politician), ‘Bomba’ (Bomb), and ‘Obshchestvo maloi skorosti’ (Low-speed society). Lunacharsky was a voluminous playwright, though only a small portion of his output reached print.
After the October Revolution Lunacharsky (1875-1933) was appointed the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, a position he held until Stalin consolidated his power in the late 1920s and in which he was known for his diverse and non-partisan approach.
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