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Image for PASTERNAK, B. Doktor Zhivago. Ann Arbor, 1959. #3

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The first edition in Russian after the Nobel Prize award

Doktor Zhivago [Doctor Zhivago]

The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1959 [but December 1958].

First printing of the first "legal" Russian edition of this famous Nobel Prize winner. A lovely copy of Pasternak's masterpiece.

Image for DOSTOEVSKY, F. Besy [The Possessed]. First edition, in wrappers. St. Petersburg, 1873. #1

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In superb original condition, with all wrappers

DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor Mikhailovich

Besy [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons]

Zamyslovskii for the author, Skt. Peterburg, 1873.

The best example we've handled of the first edition of this important Russian novel.

Image for TSVETAEVA, Lebedinyi Stan, first edition. Munich, 1957. #2

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The unpublishable finally published

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Lebedinyi stan [A Swans' Wedge. Poems from 1917-1921]

Einheit, Inh. I. Baschkirzew, Munchen, 1957.

First edition of this important cycle about the Revolution and the Civil War, impossible to publish in the USSR and even abroad for several decades. A very good copy.

Image for TOLSTOY, L. Recent Stories and Articles. First book edition, Berlin, 1894. #1

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A Tolstoy rarity

TOLSTOY, Leo

Poslednie rasskazy i statii [Recent Stories and Articles]

Izdanie Bibliograficheskago Biuro, Berlin, 1894.

Tolstoy the Wise and the Experienced, here in a series of writings difficult to publish in full in Tsarist Russia. A very rare edition, here in its original wrappers.

Image for CHEKHOV, A.P. Povesti i razskazy. First book edition, Moscow, 1894. #2

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Great copy with contemporary provenance

CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich

Povesti i razskazy [Novellas and Stories]

Sytin, Moskva, 1894.

Some of the best short stories of the great Russian author (such as 'The Black Monk'), here in an attractive example with fine bibliophilic provenance.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Stikhi k Bloku. First edition, Berlin, 1922. #2

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A great poetess to a great poet

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Stikhi k Bloku [Poems to Blok]

Kummer & Co. for Ogonki, Berlin, 1922.

Tsvetaeva's second poetry cycle published in exile, dedicated to a major Russian poet who died the year before, with the first publication of Tsvetaeva's 'Podruga' dedicated to Blok's lover. Lovely copy of this first edition.

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

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Exempt of any restoration

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Razluka [Separation]

Sinaburg & co. for Gelikon, Moskva - Berlin, 1922.

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

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Versty. Second, expanded edition, Moscow, 1922. #2

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With almost 3 times more poems

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Versty [Mileposts]

Tip. Iv. Fedorova for GIZ, Moskva, 1922.

Tsvetaeva's first post-war and post-Revolution collection of poetry, here in its most important edition.

Image for TSVETAEVA, Poslee Rossii, first edition in wrappers, 1928 #1

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Her last poems - in original wrappers

TSVETAEVA, Marina

Posle Rossii. 1922-1925 [After Russia. 1922-1925]

Imp. Union for I.E. Povolotsky, Paris, 1928.

The last poetry of Russia's great poetess, banned in the USSR: a fine example of the first edition, in the original wrappers. Includes one of Tsvetaeva's most famous poems.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Konets Kazanovy. Moscow, 1922. #2

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The great Russian poetess on stage

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Konets Kazanovy [The End of Casanova]

Sozvezdie, Moskva, 1922.

Tsvetaeva's play in verses and 'declaration of love for Casanova'. The only life-time book edition - with the original decorated wrappers.

Image for SHAFONSKII, Morozovaia iazva [Description of the Plague]. First edition, Moskva 1775, Imperial copy. #2

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Pandemic in Catherine's Russia - from an Imperial palace

SHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich

Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]

Imperatorskii universitet, Moskva, 1775.

The first Russian scientific work on the plague : an Imperial copy of a major work, in fresh condition.

Image for AKHMATOVA, A. U samogo moria. First edition, 1921. #7

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A Black Sea youth

AKHMATOVA, Anna

U samogo moria [At the Edge of the Sea]

Alkonost, Skt. Peterburg, 1921.

A fine example of the first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship.

Image for TOLSTOY, War and Peace in first edition in the original Russian, publ. Moscow, 1868-69. #2

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In 6-volume contemporary bindings

TOLSTOY, Lev

Voina i mir [War and Peace]

Ris, Moskva, 1868-69.

A bibliophile set of the first edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of world literature. Very rare in contemporary, 6-volume binding.

Image for Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, first edition, 1886. #1

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In an unusually fresh condition

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson

Little Lord Fauntleroy

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886.

A very attractive example of the first edition of this celebrated children novel: in the original cloth, very bright.

Image for Akhmatova, U samogo moria, first edition, 1921 #2

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A Black Sea youth

AKHMATOVA, Anna

U samogo moria [At the Edge of the Sea]

Alkonost, Skt. Peterburg, 1921.

A fine example of the first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship.

Image for KOTLIAREVSKII, I. Virgil's Aeneid translated into Ukrainian, 1809 edition #2

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The birth of Ukrainian literature

KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan Petrovich

Virgillieva Eneida, na malorossiiskii iazyk prelozhennaia [The Aeneid, translated into the Little Russian/Ukrainian]

Meditsinskaia tip., Skt Peterburg, 1809.

The first literary work wholly written in modern Ukrainian: a important edition of the main book written by "the father of modern Ukrainian literature" (Encycl. Britannica). This is the first edition authorised by the author and the first to include 4 parts, with a dictionnary of more than 1000 Ukrainian words. A very rare book: only two copies in WorldCat and no copy traced outside Russia and Ukraine in recent decades.

Image for PUSHKIN, A. Bratia razboiniki. Moscow, 1827. #1

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Printed on a single sheet

PUSHKIN, A[leksandr Sergeevich]

Bratia razboiniki [The Robber Brothers]

Avgust Semen, Moskva, 1827.

The most affordable Pushkin's lifetime edition, here in a stunning uncut, unopened and unbound single sheet. A great example of Russia's golden age of poetry.

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First book edition

BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich

O liubvi, poezii i gosudarstvennoi sluzhbe [Dialogue About Love, Poetry and Government Service]

Otto Elsner for Skify, Berlin, 1920.

Very good example of this first separate edition of Blok's thoughts on a wide range of themes.

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