VITALE, SERENA — Pushkin's Button
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374239355. Stated first English-language edition. An examination of the last four months of the life of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Pushkin was killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, a result of a complicated series of events and interrelationships. This edition rendered into English from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild. --- In charcoal paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with titling stamped in gilt on spine. Dust jacket features details from Grigori Grigorevich Gagarin's painting: "Princess Baryatinskaya's Ball". --- A bright, intact and tightly-bound copy lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket in similar undamaged condition.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (12), 355 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
