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Image for PUSHKIN & STALIN. Lukomore. Samizdat, USSR, 1970s #2

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The greatest Russian poet and the greatest Soviet dictator...

[PUSHKIN and STALIN]

Lukomore

[Soviet Union, mid-20th century].

A small leaf containing a funny parody which could send you to a GULAG camp.

Image for NABOKOV, BLOK, TEFFI, REMIZOV etc. Rodnaia Zemlia. Complete first edition, 1920-21. #2

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Very early publication by Nabokov

[NABOKOV, Vladimir, A. BLOK, TEFFI, A. REMIZOV and others]

Rodnaia Zemlia, Sbornik 1-2 [The Native Land; First [and] Second Collection]

Up-To-Date Printing for Narodopravstvo, Niu Iork, 1920-21.

Possibly the earliest appearance of Nabokov in the West - together with several works many other important authors. A fine example in original wrappers.

Image for NABOKOV, Vl. Poetry in samizdat, very rare. 1970s. #3

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Nabokov the Poet – Home-made and illegal in Russia

NABOKOV, Vladimir

Stikhi [Poetry]

[USSR, 1970s].

Some of Nabokov's most scandalous poems, of course banned in Soviet Union and here in an illegal "edition" home-made in Brezhnev's USSR. Very rare.

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

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The first edition in Russian after the Nobel Prize award

PASTERNAK, Boris

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 VOLOSHIN, M. Poems in samizdat, inscribed. Ca. 1961. #2

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With a poetic inscription and edits by guardian of the poet's legacy

VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian

[Poetry in Samizdat]

[Crimea?, ca. 1961].

Lovely collection of Voloshin's poems, inscribed by his widow to a fellow writer.

Image for PASTERNAK, B. Doktor Zhivago, excerpts. 1958-59 #2

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Ideal from smuggling into the USSR

PASTERNAK, Boris

Doktor Zhivago v vyderzhkakh i poiasneniiakh, opublikovannykh v ezhenedelnike Posev №№ 46, 47, 48 i 49 za 1958 g [Doctor Zhivago in Excerpts and Explanations]

Posev, [Frankfurt-am-Main, ca. end of 1958-early 1959].

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.

Image for PUSHKIN & TOMASHEVSKII. Gavriiliada. Peterburg, 1922. #1

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Pushkin's erotica with erudite comments

PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Boris TOMASHEVSKII (editor)

Gavriiliada [The Gabrieliad]

[A.S. Kagan], Peterburg, 15-ia Gos. Tip., 1922.

Pushkin's most famous censored work, here in a lovely and important scholarly edition, finely produced.

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 MAYAKOVSKY, V. Oblako v shtanakh. Moscow, 1918. #1

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"Without censorship"

MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir

Oblako v shtanakh. Tetraptikh [A Cloud in Trousers. A Tetraptich.]

[ASIS, Moskva], 1918.

One of the great poems of Mayakovsky, here in its full version without cut-outs. A fine copy, in the original wrappers.

Image for PUSHKIN, A. Evgenii Onegin, 'miniature' edition, St. Petersburg, 1837. With wrappers. #2

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The last lifetime edition - with both wrappers

PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich

Evgenii Onegin, Roman v stikhakh [Eugene Onegin, Novel in Verse]

Sanktpeterburg, Eksp. zag. gos. bumag for Iliia Glazunov, 1837.

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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