PUSHKIN, Alexander and Alexandre BENOIS (artist)
Pikovaia Dama [Queen of Spades]
A novella masterpiece of Russian literature here in a celebrated edition finely illustrated and beautifully produced.
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A pinacle of humour and Russia's second great novel (after Lermontov's 'Hero of our Times'), here in a fine example of the first edition, with the very rare and famous upper wrapper.
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Un des meilleurs romans de la littérature russe traduit en français - un bon exemplaire en chemise d'éditeur de la première édition de cette importante traduction.
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Attractive example of this famous edition of Russia's greatest fabulist, in Russian, French and Italian, with engraved plates. A luxury lifetime production, here particularly fresh.
Read More Read MorePOUCHKINE, Alexandre and Vasily CHOUKHAEFF (artist) [PUSHKIN and SHUKHAEV]
Boris Godounov
One of the great artists' books of the Russian Paris school - here in the deluxe version on Japon Impérial: one of 18 copies only.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich and Friedrich L. von MAYDELL (artist)
Tsygany [The Gypsies]
Attractive example of this large-format illustrated edition of Pushkin's poem.
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Lermontov translated by a friend of Herzen and wife of a Hungarian revolutionary. First edition of this translation.
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The most lavish illustrated edition of Gogol's masterpiece, in its original binding.
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Early Russian fables (and other poetical works) at the dawn of Russia's Golden Age of Literature - the authors only book, written and printed in Kharkov, nowadays Ukraine. No copy traced outside Russia.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Mstislav DOBUZHINSKY (artist)
Evgenii Onegin. Roman v stikhakh [Eugene Onegin. Novel in verse, ed. by V.F. Khodasevich]
Pushkin's novel in verses in the original Russian, here illustrated by Dobuzhinsky: the first edition of the full set of illustrations.
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Rouslane et Ludmile
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 MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Sergey LIFAR and Prof. M. L. GOFMAN (editors)
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda [Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, one of 50 'ad nominem' copies only, this one for Valerian Svetlov.
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First publication of the first prose work of the young Gogol, one of the greatest Russian authors. Very rare outside Russia and Ukraine.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Sergey LIFAR (editor)
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda [A Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, with the first publication of his draft.
Read More Read MoreFIDLER, Konstantin [also FIEDLER]
Slovo pokhvalnoe velikomu gosudariu Borisu Fedorovichu Godunovu [Eulogy to the Great Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov]
Very rare first edition in Russian of this praise of Boris Godunov, with great and unusual provenance: Catherine the Great and Smirdin's famous lending library. A lovely example.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Boris TOMASHEVSKII (editor)
Gavriiliada [The Gabrieliad]
Pushkin's most famous censored work, here in a lovely and important scholarly edition, finely produced.
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One of Russia's greatest masterpieces, here in a lovely 'miniature' edition - the last one published during Pushkin's lifetime - and in an attractive example with the rare wrappers.
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A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes.
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