SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Gëte [Goethe].
Moscow and Leningrad, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950.
8vo, pp. 191, [1], with frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations; a very good copy in the original publisher’s cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blind, spine lettered gilt, a little rubbed.
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Gëte [Goethe].
First edition of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan’s (1888–1982) scholarly work on Goethe, which particularly examines Russian (and Soviet) appreciations. The great German writer was Shaginyan’s (or Shaginian’s) idol, as attested by Puteshestvie v Veimar (Journey to Weimar).