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Image for S. DOVLATOV. Marsh odinikikh. First edition, inscribed. Holyoke, 1983. #2

A chronicle of the early 1980s in the US Russian community

Marsh odinokikh [The March of the Lonely]

£2,250

A chronicle of the early 1980s in the US Russian community
DOVLATOV, Sergei. Marsh odinokikh. [The March of the Lonely]
Published/created in: 1983

£2,250

First edition thus, inscribed to a fellow journalist and author.

Image for MEKSIN et al. Exhibition of Japanese Children Books and Art Work. First edition of the booklet, in original Russian. Moscow, 1928. #2

Japanese children books in the young USSR

MEKSIN, Iakov, Nina SAKULINA, and Aleksandr MOGILEVSKII (artist)

Vystavka detskoi knigi i detskogo tvorchestva Iaponii [An Exhibition of Japanese Children Books and Art Work]

£395

Japanese children books in the young USSR
MEKSIN, Iakov, Nina SAKULINA, and Aleksandr MOGILEVSKII (artist). Vystavka detskoi knigi i detskogo tvorchestva Iaponii. [An Exhibition of Japanese Children Books and Art Work]
Published/created in: 1928

£395

Uncommon booklet presenting a very early cultural exchange between Japan and the USSR, centred on children books. A lovely item, here in very good condition in spite of its fragility.

Image for S. DOVLATOV. Nashi [Ours]. First edition, inscribed. Ann Arbor, 1983. #2

"One only wants to be like Chekhov"

DOVLATOV, Sergei

Nashi [Ours]

£2,500

"One only wants to be like Chekhov"
DOVLATOV, Sergei. Nashi. [Ours]
Published/created in: 1983

£2,500

First edition of this collection of short stories by the famous Russian author. An appealing example, inscribed by Dovlatov to a figure of the US Russian emigration.

Image for S. DOVLATOV. Zona. First edition, inscribed. Ann Arbor, 1982. #2

His "most important book" - inscribed

DOVLATOV, Sergei

Zona: zapiski nadziratelia [The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story]

£3,000

His "most important book" - inscribed
DOVLATOV, Sergei. Zona: zapiski nadziratelia. [The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story]
Published/created in: 1982

£3,000

First edition Dovlatov's famous work, inscribed to a figure of the Russian emigration in the US.

Image for A. BENOIS. Russian ABC in Pictures. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1904. #2

Beautifully fresh

BENUA, Aleksandr [Alexandre BENOIS]

Azbuka v kartinakh [Alphabet in Pictures]

£7,500

Beautifully fresh
BENUA, Aleksandr [Alexandre BENOIS]. Azbuka v kartinakh. [Alphabet in Pictures]
Published/created in: 1904

£7,500

A very desirable copy of this great artist's book and one of the best ABCs ever published, rare in such a fresh condition. First edition.

Image for L. TOLSTOY. Ivan Durak. Second edition, Leipzig, 1892. #2

"Confiscated in Russia!"

TOLSTOY, Lev

Skazka ob Ivane Durake i ego dvukh bratiakh [The Tale of Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers]

£650

"Confiscated in Russia!"
TOLSTOY, Lev. Skazka ob Ivane Durake i ego dvukh bratiakh. [The Tale of Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers]
Published/created in: 1892

£650

Tolstoy banned in Russia: a rare edition of this novella, kept in its fragile wrappers. Printed in Leipzig; and also an unusual example of decorative wrappers on a Russian literary work.

Image for I. ERENBURG. Poems. First edition, Paris, 1910. #2

A review copy of his rare first book

ERENBURG, Ilia Grigorevich

Stikhi [Poems]

£1,500

A review copy of his rare first book
ERENBURG, Ilia Grigorevich. Stikhi. [Poems]
Published/created in: 1910

£1,500

An interesting, annotated example of this first edition of Erenburg's first book, here in its original wrappers. Rarely found - one of 100 copies only.

Image for NARBUT & KRYLOV. Basni [Fables]. Knebel, Moscow, 1912, first edition with these illustrations. #2

Fables in silhouette

NARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV

Basni Krylova [Krylov's Fables]

£850

Fables in silhouette
NARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV. Basni Krylova. [Krylov's Fables]
Published/created in: [1912]

£850

Some of the most famous Russian fables here illustrated by the leading Ukrainian artist. Scarce in this lovely condition.

Image for H. BRINDLEY. Notes on the Boats of Siberia. First edition (offprint), London 1920. #2

On one of the longest rivers in the world

BRINDLEY, Harold Hulme

Notes on the Boats of Siberia

£395

On one of the longest rivers in the world
BRINDLEY, Harold Hulme. Notes on the Boats of Siberia.
Published/created in: [1920]

£395

Fine essay on Siberian boats, their history, construction, use etc., with illustrations. Very rare offprint.

Image for PAEDIATRY. Fifty Years of the Princess Elisabeth Hospital for Small Children. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1894. #2

Extensive record of 19-c. Russian paediatric medicine

[MEDICINE]

Ocherk piatidesiatiletnei deiatelnosti Elisavetinskoi Klinicheskoi Bolnitsy dlia Maloletnikh Detei 1844-1894 [An Overview of Fifty Years of Activity of the Elizavetinsky Clinical Hospital for Small Children]

£1,850

Extensive record of 19-c. Russian paediatric medicine
[MEDICINE]. Ocherk piatidesiatiletnei deiatelnosti Elisavetinskoi Klinicheskoi Bolnitsy dlia Maloletnikh Detei 1844-1894. [An Overview of Fifty Years of Activity of the Elizavetinsky Clinical Hospital for Small Children]
Published/created in: 1894

£1,850

Rare account describing the first 50 years of an innovative hospital for childen based in St. Pertersburg, and the first in the world focusing on very early age (< 3 y-old). With a wealth of statistics and graphs. A pleasant copy, retaining most of its first, luxury binding.

Image for P. RYCHKOV. Essay on the History of Kazan. First edition, in original Russian, St. Petersburg, 1767. #2

First edition of a groundbreaking work on one of Russia's major regions

RYCHKOV, Petr

Opyt kazanskoi istorii drevnikh i srednikh vremian [Essay on the History of Kazan in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages]

£10,000

First edition of a groundbreaking work on one of Russia's major regions
RYCHKOV, Petr. Opyt kazanskoi istorii drevnikh i srednikh vremian. [Essay on the History of Kazan in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages]
Published/created in: 1767

£10,000

A major work in Catherine the Great's active discovery of her empire: the first printed book on Kazan, its history and the Tatar region. First edition, in contemporary binding. Rare: the last copy at auction in the West was 50 years ago.

Image for L.-J. de JONGH. L'Huile de foie de morue... First edition, red morocco bound for the Tsar, Paris, 1853. #2

Disgusting, but so healthy!...

JONGH, Lodewijk Joseph, de

L'Huile de foie de morue envisagée sous tous les rapports comme moyen thérapeutique

£1,850

Disgusting, but so healthy!...
JONGH, Lodewijk Joseph, de. L'Huile de foie de morue envisagée sous tous les rapports comme moyen thérapeutique.
Published/created in: 1853

£1,850

Lovely copy of the first edition of the definitive treaty on cod liver oil and its medical properties. Attractively bound in red morocco with the arms of Russia.

Image for ZIDE [SIEDE] & GROMOV, Nezhnyia obiatiia v brake... First edition, St. Petersburg, 1798. #2

Tender Embraces in Marriage - or Pastime with Venal Mistresses? Fine copy of a famous rarity

[ZIDE, Iogann Khristoforovich [Johann Christian SIEDE] and Gleb GROMOV (translator)]

Nezhnyia obiatiia v brake i potekhi s liubovnitsami (prodazhnymi) izobrazheny i sravneny pravdoliubom [Tender Embraces in Marriage and Pastime with (Venal) Mistresses, Depicted and Compared by a Truth Seeker]

£9,500

Tender Embraces in Marriage - or Pastime with Venal Mistresses? Fine copy of a famous rarity
[ZIDE, Iogann Khristoforovich [Johann Christian SIEDE] and Gleb GROMOV (translator)]. Nezhnyia obiatiia v brake i potekhi s liubovnitsami (prodazhnymi) izobrazheny i sravneny pravdoliubom. [Tender Embraces in Marriage and Pastime with (Venal) Mistresses, Depicted and Compared by a Truth Seeker]
Published/created in: [1798]

£9,500

A risqué book for Russian readers of the 1800s onwards, celebrated as a rarity by many bibliographers. A lovely copy of the first edition, in contemporary binding and fine condition.

Image for GENKEL & SUETIN. Ford and Fordism. First edition, Leningrad, 1925. #2

Ford's influence in the early USSR

GENKEL, German and Nikolai SUETIN (artist)

Ford i fordizm: vpechatleniia [Ford and Fordism: Impressions]

£1,750

Ford's influence in the early USSR
GENKEL, German and Nikolai SUETIN (artist). Ford i fordizm: vpechatleniia. [Ford and Fordism: Impressions]
Published/created in: 1925

£1,750

Fine cover for one of the great Russian books on the influential American industrialist. Uncommon, and here in a pleasant example.

Image for P. TKACHEV. Anarkhiia mysli. First edition, Geneva, 1879. #2

"More of a predecessor of the Bolsheviks than Marx and Engels" (Berdiaev)

TKACHEV, Petr Nikitich

Anarkhiia mysli: sobranie kriticheskikh ocherkov [Anarchy of Thought: a Collection of Critical Essays]

£1,450

"More of a predecessor of the Bolsheviks than Marx and Engels" (Berdiaev)
TKACHEV, Petr Nikitich. Anarkhiia mysli: sobranie kriticheskikh ocherkov. [Anarchy of Thought: a Collection of Critical Essays]
Published/created in: 1879

£1,450

Important little book announcing Lenin and the Russian Revolution. First separate edition, scarce, and here in an attractive binding, rather unusual for this type of text.

Image for W. SIMPSON. The Seat of War in the East. First edition, hand-coloured, London, 1855-56. #2

The preferred hand-coloured version - here with the rare text volume

SIMPSON, William

The Seat of War in the East

£17,500

The preferred hand-coloured version - here with the rare text volume
SIMPSON, William. The Seat of War in the East.
Published/created in: 1855-56

£17,500

A most famous plate book on the Crimean War. First edition, a very good example complete of the deluxe version, with the smaller text volume.

Image for GONCHAROVA & LARIONOV. L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne. First edition, Paris, 1919. #2

Ballets Russes innovations in large pochoirs

GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH

L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne

£10,000

Ballets Russes innovations in large pochoirs
GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH. L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne.
Published/created in: 1919

£10,000

Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.

Image for S. ESENIN. Poems of Scandalist. First edition, in Russian. Berlin, 1923. #2

My best poems - in Isadora Duncan's company

ESENIN, Sergei (also Sergei YESENIN)

Stikhi skandalista [Poems of a Scandalist]

£3,500

My best poems - in Isadora Duncan's company
ESENIN, Sergei (also Sergei YESENIN). Stikhi skandalista. [Poems of a Scandalist]
Published/created in: 1923

£3,500

Pleasant example of the frst edition of this important collection. With a famous cycle, banned in the USSR. Published in Berlin but scarce on the market outside Russia.

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