GOETHE, Johan Wolfgang von; Boris Leonidovich PASTERNAK, translator.
Тайны [Tainy; ‘Die Geheimnisse’ or ‘The Mysteries’].
Moscow, Izdatel’stvo Sovremennik, 1922.
8vo, pp. 32; silhouette portrait of Goethe on title and front cover; small ink initials to title, bookseller’s marks inside back cover, but a very good, large, fresh copy in the original printed wrappers, slightly discoloured, spine worn.
First and only edition, very rare, of Pasternak’s early translation of Goethe’s epic fragment Die Geheimnisse (The Mysteries); with a long introductory note by Professor Grigorii Rachinskii.
Tarasenkov p. 295. OCLC records copies at Yale, Harvard, and Amherst only.
