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[FOR THE PEASANT THEATRE] Skomorokh: sbornik p’es dlia raboche-krest’ianskogo teatra [i.e. Buffoon: The Collection of Plays for the Theatre of Workers and Peasants]

Lebedev, I.

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. Item #801

192 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, tear of upper edge of three last leaves, minor defects of spine.
Signed by author to Vladimir Nemeshaev who was a head of the Copyright Office and member of the Moscow Society of Dramatists and Composers.
First and only edition. One of 15 000 copies. Extremely rare.
An interesting collection gathering five 1920s peasant-oriented plays. The edition was devoted to 50th anniversary of literary activity of Ivan Lebedev whose works reflected the spirit of peasantry.
Worldcat doesn’t track this edition.

Price: $350.00