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Unauthorised edition

50 stikhotvorenii [50 poems]

Paris, YMCA-Press, 1963. £650

Fine copy, in its original printed wrappers, of this large-format edition of some of the poems of Russia's great poetess. Printed with a mimeograph machine.

Image for M. LOMONOSOV. Works in Verse, in the original Russian. St. Petersburg, 1893. #2

In the publisher's binding

LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilevich

Sochineniia v stikhakh [Works in Verse]

Marks, Skt. Peterburg, 1893. £175

A lovely small volume with Lomonosov's poetical production. The binding remained fresh, which is unusual.

Image for J. BRODSKY. Verses and Poems, first edition in the original Russia. USA, 1965. #2

A Nobel Prize's first book

BRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]

Stikhotvoreniia i poemy [Verses and Poems]

Inter-Language Literary Associates, Washington, D.C.-New York, 1965. £750

First edition of an important start: the future nobel prize winner's first collection of poems that had to be published abroad after he was sentenced to five years of hard labor for "social parasitism" in 1964.

Image for KOTLIAREVSKY & BAZYLEVYCH. Eneida. Kyiv, 1971. #2

"The most popular edition [...] by the outstanding Ukrainian artist" (Lebedeva)

KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist)

Eneida [Aeneid]

Mystetstvo, Kyiv, 1971. £195

"The father of modern Ukrainian literature" in a very visual interpretation during Soviet times, by an important Ukrainian artist. Very rare in the West.

Image for PASTERNAK. Sestra moia zhizn. Second edition, 1923. #2

Praised by Tsvetaeva

PASTERNAK, Boris

Sestra moia zhizn [My Sister Life]

Grzhebin, Berlin, Peterburg and Moskva, 1923. £450

Lovely second edition of this important cycle of poetry by the future Nobel Prize winner. The first edition with Annekov's portrait, in the original wrappers.

Image for Th. GAUTIER. Russia. Philadelphia, 1905. #2

A striking copy

GAUTIER, Théophile

Russia

The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1905. £850

Impressive American publication, here in fantastic condition, bringing to the English-speaking reader an account of Russia by one of the great French authors.

Image for F. DOSTOEVSKII. Idiot. Skt. Peterburg, 1884. In wrappers. #2

One of his masterpieces in wrappers

DOSTOEVSKII, Fedor [also DOSTOEVSKY]

Idiot [The Idiot]

Suvorin, Skt. Peterburg, 1884. £1,250

An early edition of Dostoesvky's great novel, in superb condition: a very rare case in any example of Russian literature of the 19th century.

Image for BALLETS RUSSES: BARBIER and YORKE, Three works, First editions, 1913-20. #2

Dancing stars in more than 30 pochoir plates and attractively bound

BARBIER, George, and Arabella YORKE (artists), Jean-Louis VAUDOYER, Francis de MIOMANDRE and Cyril BEAUMONT

Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina [BOUND WITH] The Art of Lydia Lopokova [BOUND WITH] Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky

I. Paris, Collections Pierre Corrard; II & III. London, C. W. Beaumont, 1914, 1920 and 1913. £12,500

Scarce gathering of Yorke's beautiful and rare publication and both Barbier's 'albums', all bound at the time in a fine blue calf signed binding - a fine volume indeed.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Razluka, first edition. Berlin, 1922. #2

Partially unopened, in the publisher's boards

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Razluka [Separation]

Sinaburg & co. for Gelikon, Moskva - Berlin, 1922. £1,500

An attractive example of this fragile production, Tsvetaeva's first poetry collection published abroad. First edition.

Image for RIVIERA, Diego. Fortune Magazine issue on Russia & Soviet Union. 1932 #2

Striking cover drawn by Diego Riviera – and extensive, fascinating content

RIVERA, Diego (artist)

Fortune, March 1932, Volume V, Number 3

Time Inc., New York, 1932. £450

A superb cover for a richly illustrated and interesting content: the Fortune Magazine issue focusing on the 'Soviet miracle'.

One of the famous covers of the Avant-Garde

ALTMAN, Natan

Lenin. Risunki Natana Altmana [Lenin. Sketches by Natan Altman]

Nar. Kom. po Prosveshcheniiu, Peterburg, 1921. £1,250

A pleasant example of this work, with its famous avant-garde cover design by Altman.

Image for M. BULGAKOV. Heart of a Dog, first Russian book edition. Paris, YMCA, 1969. #2

U-u-u-u-u-u... in first edition

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Sobache serdtse [Heart of a Dog]

Beresniak for YMCA, Paris, 1969. £1,450

Uncommon first book edition in Russian of Bulgakov's suppressed satirical masterpiece. A lovely copy in its original wrappers by Annenkov.

Image for V. VALTER. Opera Glinki Ruslan i Liudmila. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1903. Gd. Duke Konstantin Romanov's copy. #2

Out of stock

With prestigious imperial and artistic provenance

[GLINKA] – VALTER, Viktor Grigorievich

Opera M. I. Glinki Ruslan i Liudmila [The Opera 'Ruslan and Ludmila' by Glinka]

Soikin, Skt. Peterburg, 1903.

Excellent copy, with fine, desirable Romanov provenance, of this very rare study of one of the great Russian operas.

Image for TEFFI & PAREN. Baba Yaga, first edition in Russian. Paris, 1932. #2

Out of stock

Of large dimensions

TEFFI, Nadezhda and Natalia PAREN [PARAIN] (artist)

Narodnaia skazka. Baba Iaga [Folk fairytale. Baba Yaga]

YMCA Press, Paris, 1932.

Fine example of this famous children book, in the original Russian by the great Russian female author Teffi. With striking illustrations by a student from VKhUTEMAS.

Image for M. TSVETAEVA. Selected poetry, in original Russian. Samizdat, Russia, after 1965. #2

Out of stock

Home-made volume of famous banned poetry

TSVETAEVA, Marina

[Izbrannoe stikhotvorenie] [Selected Poetry]

[Russia, after 1965].

Poems of Russia's great poetess in a fine samizdat volume, in excellent condition. Based an an edition which contained many newly published poems.

Image for BAKST, L. Inedited works. First edition, New York, 1927 #2

Out of stock

In luminous pochoir with silver highlights

[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER

Inedited Works of Bakst

Jacomet and Lang, Paris, for Brentano's, New York, 1927.

Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, especially remarkable for its pochoir technique. A lovely copy of the first edition.

Image for PUSHKIN & SAMOKISH-SUDKOVSKAIA. Evgenii Onegin. Skt. Peterburg, 1911. Second edition. #2

Out of stock

A famous production

PUSHKIN Aleksandr and Elena SAMOKISH-SUDKOVSKAIA

Evgenii Onegin [Eugene Onegin]

Golike & Vilborg, Skt. Peterburg, 1911.

Attractive example of this illustrated edition, one of the most famous of Pushkin's great work. Not common in this condition.

Image for PUSHKIN & SOKOLOV. Eugene Onegin. First edition with these illustrations. Moscow, 1893. #2

Out of stock

Russia's greatest poet, in one of the best illustrated editions

PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Pavel SOKOLOV (artist), among others

Evgenii Onegin. Roman [Eugene Onegin. A Novel]

Mamontov for V.G. Gote, Moskva, 1893.

The first edition of Pushkin's celebrated text with Sokolov's drawings, praised by contemporaries and collectors - a fine edition, here in an attractive example. Scarce.

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