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THE RARE FIRST APPEARANCE16. BULGAKOV, Mikhail Afanas’evich. Master i Margarita [The Master andMargarita], contained in two numbers of : Moskva [Moscow]. Moscow,‘Moskva’, November 1966 and January 1967.2 parts (1966, pt. II; 1967, pt. I), 8vo; light browning to paper, but a very good copyin the original printed wrappers, lightly marked and with some repair to spines; ina blue morocco folding box. £9500The first appearance in print in any format of The Master and Margarita,serialised in two issues of the journal Moskva in November 1966 and January1967. Although the novel had been completed in 1938, in common with most ofBulgakov’s prose it was not published until long after his death from an inheritedkidney disorder in 1940.This first printing of his best known work is a censored version of the text,eliminating much of the anti-Soviet satire, yet it still caused an immediatesensation on publication. The first edition in book form was published by theYMCA Press in Paris in 1967, also with the censored version of the Russian text.The full text was first published in English later in 1967 (there are two differentEnglish translations, one of the censored text and one of the full text). The firstappearance of the full text in Russian was published in Frankfurt in 1969.THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION17. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems,original and translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor ... Newark,Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge; sold also by B. Crosby and Co. ... Longman,Hurst, Rees, and Orme... London, 1807.Crown 8vo (190 x 120 mm), pp. xiii, [1], 187, [1], with half-title; D3 a cancel asusual (reading ‘Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove’: the cancellandum,known only from the Ashley copy, reads ‘Those tisssues of fancy which Moriah haswove’); a fine copy in pale blue-green crushed levant by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton & Company, gilt fillets on covers, spine gilt within compartments, t.e.g.,others untrimmed. £2000First edition, the genuine first printing of Byron’s first regularly-publishedbook. It may be distinguished from the deceptive ‘large-paper’ demy 8vo ‘first’edition – in fact a reprint, wholly reset, also the work of the ubiquitous Ridges – bytypographical errors on pp. 114 (‘thnnder’) and 181 (‘Thc’), and sometimes (but notalways) by the correct numbering of p. 171 as here. A further distinction is, ofcourse, the cancellation of D3, which was not necessary in the reprint. It was thediscovery of the cancellandum which finally settled the question of priority.