Two issues of a very rare, almost home-made magazine for Russian émigrés in the US.
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Against Western - but also Soviet - anti-Russian propaganda. By a military priest who first emigrated to Kharbin before the USA.
Read More Read MorePRUTKOV, Kozma, Dmitrii MINAEV, Anna BARYKOVA, Stepan RUDANSKYI and others
Iumoristicheskii chtets-deklamator. Polnoe sobranie samykh luchshikh stikhotvorenii [Humorous Reader-Reciter. Complete Collection of the Very Best Poems]
Small-format émigré edition to make the Russophones in America laugh. Extremely rare: no copy traced except one in St. Petersburg.
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A striking cover for a striking book: the first extensive study of the 1930s Great Famine in Ukraine. First edition, published in London.
Read More Read MoreLINSKII, Mikhail, Mikhail DRIZO (pseud. MAD), Arkadii AVERCHENKO and others
Bich. Bitche [Whip]
Complete set of this scarce satirical periodical of the Russophone community in Paris. With a wealth of caricatural drawings and wide-ranging texts.
Read More Read MoreKHOLMSTON-SMYSLOVSKII, [Boris]
Izbrannye stati i rechi [Selected Articles and Speeches]
A volume of essays by a Russian anti-communist general, published in South America, where he advised the Argentinian president.
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An inscribed copy of Parnok's last collection of verses: a very rare work by a Russian woman standing out in the literary landscape of the country.
Read More Read More[NABOKOV, Vladimir, A. BLOK, TEFFI, A. REMIZOV and others]
Rodnaia Zemlia, Sbornik 1-2 [The Native Land; First [and] Second Collection]
Possibly the earliest appearance of Nabokov in the West - together with several works many other important authors. A fine example in original wrappers.
Read More Read MoreSHKLOVSKII, Viktor and El LISITSKII [LISSITZKY] (artist)
Zoo. Pisma ne o liubvi ili tretia Eloiza [Zoo. Letters Not About Love or the Third Eloise]
Cover design by El Lissitzky for this depiction of the Russian emigration in Berlin in the Golden Twenties.
The preferred first edition, rarer than the Russian one published shortly afterwards.
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A scarce, very early pamphlet with important excerpts from Pasternak's celebrated novel - banned in the USSR and published here with help of the CIA.
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A fine association copy of this touching work of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, then only allowed to do translation work. Inscirbed by Akhmatova to her fellow translator.
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