Item #964 Poemi. [Poems.]. Edgar Allen Poe, Edgar Po, Felix Vallotton, Sirak Skitnik, Georgi Mihailov.
Poemi. [Poems.]
Poemi. [Poems.]
Poemi. [Poems.]
With Surrealist Illustrations by Sirak Skitnik

Poemi. [Poems.]

Sofia: Maid, 1920. One of hundred copies published with five woodcuts (additional 1000 copies were published with four illustrations). A woodcut illustration on rear cover. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, with Poe’s woodcut portrait by Felix Vallotton on front panel, that is repeated on frontispiece. Bound with black string. (1 [illustrated frontispiece), (18) leaves, and 5 plates with illustrations. Presentation inscription of title page. Cover yellowed, slightly chipped at edges, rubbed. Inside clean. Overall a very good copy.

One of hundred copies of the collection of Bulgarian translations of sixteen poems by Edgar Allen Poe, among them “The Raven”, with five full page illustrations by Sirak Skitnik, and Felix Vallotton’s portrait of Poe.

Sirak Skitnik [Panaiot Todorov Hristov; 1883–1943] was a Bulgarian paiter. He studied painting at the private school of Leon Bakst, and became member of "Mir iskusstva" the circle around the Russian art magazine with the same name, the centre of Russian revolutionary and avant-garde art.

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Price: €600.00