Pêcheur d'Islande.
Published/created in: 1886
£1,250
Loti's most celebrated novel: a fine example of the first edition, here with a record number of states of the plates, bound in full green morocco retaining the original bright orange publisher's wrappers.
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Eugene Onéguine.
Published/created in: 1881
£8,000
Desirable copy of this landmark translation, the first into English and here inscribed by the translator.
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Anna Karenina.
Published/created in: 1878
£14,500
Tolstoy's masterpiece in first edition: a complete example of this classic of Russian and world literature in contemporary Russian binding.
Read More Read MoreSIRIN, V. [pseud. for Vladimir NABOKOV]
Priglashenie na kazn [Invitation to a Beheading]
Priglashenie na kazn. [Invitation to a Beheading]
Published/created in: 1938
£1,850
First ediion of Nabokov's last Russian novel printed in Paris, a work chosen by Radio Liberty to distribute clandestinely in USSR.
Read More Read MoreEPIKTIT [EPICTETUS], Kevit Fiveiskii [CEBES of Thebes] and Grigorii POLETIKA (translator)
Epiktita stoicheskago filosofa Enkhiridion i Apofoegmy i Kevita Fiveiskago Kartina ili Izobrazhenie zhitiia chelovecheskago [Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher's Enchiridion and Apothegms; and The Picture, or a Representation of the Life of Man, by Cebes of Thebes]
Epiktita stoicheskago filosofa Enkhiridion i Apofoegmy i Kevita Fiveiskago Kartina ili Izobrazhenie zhitiia chelovecheskago. [Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher's Enchiridion and Apothegms; and The Picture, or a Representation of the Life of Man, by Cebes of Thebes]
£4,350
An important edition: the first of Epictetus and Cebes in Russia, and one of the first translations of Greek into Russian. Very rare: no copy traced outside Russia.
Read More Read More[PUSHKIN] – Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)
Rouslane et Ludmile
Rouslane et Ludmile.
Published/created in: 1898
£2,450
The first complete poetic French translation of Pushkin's celebrated work. Strikingly illustrated by an original Russian female artist, and this copy inscribed by the translator: a politically-engaged playwright and one of the main figures of the feminist theatre movement in France. Rarely found, and only 500 copies printed.
Read More Read MoreBURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author)
Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy" [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy". [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
Published/created in: 1914
£2,950
First edition of this collection of futurist poetry, inscribed by Burliuk to "the best customer" Lev Grinkrug. A lovely book, finely illustrated with plates by Burliuk and two famous Russian avant-garde female artists: Exter and Vasilieva.
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Dvenadtsat. [The Twelve]
Published/created in: 1918
£6,500
Rare first edition of one of the best modernist books and a Russian 'livre d'artiste', published in the aftermath of the Revolution and WW1. One of 300 copies only, this one kept in its original printed wrappers.
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Kritika dogmaticheskago bogosloviia. [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]
Published/created in: 1891-6
£3,750
Rare first edition of Tolstoy's important critical religious text, published in Geneva as it was impossible to have it authorised in the Russian empire. No copy traced on the market in recent decades - this one a pleasant example.
Read More Read MoreZHABOTINSKII, V. (ALTALENA) [also JABOTINSKY]
Piatero [The Five]
Piatero. [The Five]
£4,950
Very rare first edition of Jabotinsky's best novel: one of 75 copies on papier Japon, out of a total printrun of only 125 copies. A fine novel about Jabotinsky's native city in Ukraine, Odessa, far from his important Zionist militant activities. In original Russian.
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Moskva-Petushki. [Moscow-Petushki, also translated as Moscow to the End of the Line]
Published/created in: 1977
£2,450
First book edition of one of the most famous Russian novels of the last century and a celebrated 'tamizdat'. Uncommon on the market, here in lovely condition.
Read More Read MoreBRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]
Konets prekrasnoi epokhi. Stikhotvoreniia 1964-1971 [with] Chast rechi. Stikhotvoreniia 1972-1976 [The End of a Beautiful Era. Poems 1964-1971 [with] Part of Speech. Poems 1972-1976].
Konets prekrasnoi epokhi. Stikhotvoreniia 1964-1971 [with] Chast rechi. Stikhotvoreniia 1972-1976. [The End of a Beautiful Era. Poems 1964-1971 [with] Part of Speech. Poems 1972-1976].
Published/created in: 1977
£7,750
Great gathering of both volumes, in first editions, both inscribed to Vandelos-Legkaia, a figure of the Russian community in the USA.
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Marsh odinokikh. [The March of the Lonely]
Published/created in: 1983
£2,250
First edition thus, inscribed to a fellow journalist and author.
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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.
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