Teffi, pseud. [Lokhvitskaia; Buchinskaia], N[adezhda Aleksandrovna] (1872 - 1952)	Kniga. Iun´.Razskazy. Belgrade, 1931. 205, [1 p.] Kniga .Iun´.Razskazy. Belgrade, 1931. 205, [1 p.] (Russkaia Biblioteka, Kniga 17)	€250

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8 vo, attractive lithographed original covers preserved. Some slight chipping on back cover, very slight chipping at the bottom of spine. Printed on better paper. VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY. On back cover: 'Izdatel´skaia Komissiia Palata Akademije Nauka [...] Beograd'. The most rare of all émigré editions of Nadezhda Teffi. Copy lacks in major Russian state, academic, public and private libraries. First edition and only edition. Nadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya. Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satirikon magazine. Her birthday in various sources varies in the range 1871-1876. The most recent findings say that she was born in May 1872. The critic Anistasiya Chebotarevskaya compared Teffi's stories, which she said were 'highly benevolent in their elegiac tone and profoundly humanitarian in their attitudes', to the best stories by Anton Chekhov. See: Tomei, Christine Russian women writers. Volume 2 (1999), p. 812 – 821.; Pachmuss, Tamira A Russian Cultural Revival. [...] (1981),p. 106–107.