[FIRST APPEARANCE OF CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL] Chaika. Komedia v 4-kh deistviakh // Russkaia mysl. Ezhemesiachnoe literaturno-politicheskoe izdanie. God 17. Kniga XII [i.e. The Seagull. Comedy in 4 Acts // The Russian Thought. Monthly Literary and Political Edition. Year 17. Book XII]
Moscow: Tipo-lit. Tov-va I.N. Kushnera, 1896. Pp. 117-161. 23,7x15 cm. In modern half-leather and case. Fine, a few pencil markings. First publication of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Very rare. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. The play was written in 1895 and..... More