1973 An Amateur Peasant Girl

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed Binding

The first English translation of this work to feature these illustrations.

No. 127 of 300 copies produced. While the book itself gives the limitation as 500, a loosely inserted slip from the publisher corrects this to the lower number.

Illustrated with three full page illustrations from James O'Connor, and several tail-pieces by Simon Peers. Collated, complete.

A short story by Alexander Pushkin about an aristocratic girl who disguises herself as a peasant to learn the true nature of Alexei Berestoff, a young nobleman with whom her family has a long-standing feud.

In the original cloth binding by Herald Printers of York.