Nadson, S. Ya. Poems by S. Ya. Nadson (Stikhotvoreniia S. Ya. Nadsona). With Portrait, Facsimile, and Biographical Essay, 1889. In Russian.

Надсон С.Я. Стихотворения С.Я. Надсона, с портретом, факсимиле и биографическим очерком. Издание девятое. Собственность Общества для пособия нуждающимся литераторам и ученым.
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И.Н. Скороходова, 1889.
LXXXVIII, 302 с., 1 л. портр., 1 л. факс.
В составном владельческом переплёте: коричневый кожаный корешок с бинтами и золотым тиснением «Стихотворения Надсона», крышки оклеены бордовым коленкором.
На авантитуле дарственная надпись чернилами. 
Состояние: хорошее. Кожа корешка с потертостями, потускнением и обнажением подложки в верхней и нижней частях. Коленкор крышек слегка потерт по краям. На отдельных страницах временные пятна и легкие следы влаги (в том числе на последних листах). Блок крепкий, текст полный, портрет и факсимиле на месте.
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Nadson, S. Ya. Poems by S. Ya. Nadson, with Portrait, Facsimile, and Biographical Essay. Ninth Edition. Property of the Society for the Aid of Needy Writers and Scholars.
St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov Press, 1889.
LXXXVIII, 302 pp., 1 leaf of portrait, 1 leaf of facsimile.
In a composite owner's binding: brown leather spine with raised bands and gilt title "Stikhotvoreniia Nadsona," sides covered in burgundy cloth.
With an inked presentation inscription on the half-title.
Condition: good. Leather spine rubbed and faded with surface losses at head and tail. Cloth sides lightly rubbed at edges. Occasional age spots and faint stains on some leaves, including the rear pages. Text block firm, contents complete, portrait and facsimile present.

Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson (1862–1887) was the most widely read Russian poet of the 1880s and early 1890s, and his single collection went through more editions in the decade after his death than the works of any other contemporary poet. His verse, suffused with civic melancholy, generational disillusionment, and a tubercular foreboding fulfilled by his death at twenty-four, gave voice to the moral exhaustion of the post-populist intelligentsia and was read in gymnasiums, student rooms, and provincial libraries throughout the Russian Empire; the first edition of 1885 was awarded the Pushkin Prize on Yakov Polonsky's nomination. After his death the rights passed to the Society for the Aid of Needy Writers and Scholars (the Literary Fund), which continued to issue Nadson's poems in steadily expanding editions, of which this 1889 ninth edition is among the earliest, opened by an extensive biographical essay and embellished with a fine photogravure portrait by Scherer, Nabholz & Co. of Moscow and a facsimile of the poet's hand.