Pushkin in the library of a poet-collector

[PUSHKIN]

Albom Pushkinskoi Vystavki [Album of the Pushkin Exhibition]
K.A. Fisher, Moskva, 1899. £850

A relatively large-format publication with hundreds of illustrations showing Pushkin's creations, personality, friends, contemporaries, as well as later interpretations. From N. Turoverov's collection, an important Cossack officer, poet and collector.

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Poems inscribed to Pushkin's granddaughter

V. W. [ie. Wilhelm van der VILET]

Nachbildungen Russischer Originale
Bernstein, Berlin, 1905. £975

Imperial copy of this scarce anthology of Russian poems in a German translation, inscribed to a Grand Duchess of Russia and granddaughter of Russia's greatest poet. Acquired from the Grand Duke's descent.

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In the larger and rarer format

VASNETSOV, Viktor (artist) and Aleksandr PUSHKIN

Pesn o Veshchem Olege [The Song of Wise Oleg]
Levenson, Moskva, [1914]. £2,950

A famous work, here in the unusual large, folio format, rarer than the first edition (which was a quarto).

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Onegin in English for the first time, "with the translator's compliments"

PUSHKIN, Alexander and Henry SPALDING (transl.)

Eugene Onéguine
London, Macmillan and Co., 1881. £8,000

Desirable copy of this landmark translation, the first into English and here inscribed by the translator.

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Inscribed by the translator, a feminist character

[PUSHKIN] – Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)

Rouslane et Ludmile
Lafoyer, Vannes, for Librairie de l'art indépendant, Paris, 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.

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The epitome of the Russian children book

BILIBIN, Ivan (artist)

Skazki [Folk Tales]
Skt. Peterburg, Eksp. Zagotovl. Gos. Bumag, 1901-1903. £4,950

Fine, complete set of the six children books which made Bilibin's fame so long lasting. All in first edition, beautifully preserved.

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With some of the best plates of Alexeieff

ALEXEIEFF, Alexandre et Alexandre POUCHKINE [PUSHKIN]

Les Récits de Feu Ivan Pétrovitch Bielkine
Boosten et Stols, Maestricht, pour Stols, Maestricht et Bruxelles, 1930 [mais Septembre 1929]. £600

Pleasant example, fresh internally, of this famous production of Alexeieff illustrating Pushkin. First edition with these illustrations. One of the "few copies" not for sale.

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With a fine original watercolour

POUCHKINE, Alexandre and Boris ZWORYKINE (artist) [PUSHKIN and ZVORYKIN]

Boris Godounov
Paris, L'édition d'art, H. Piazza, [1927]. £4,950

One of the great productions of the Parisian Russian artists - this one from the "tirage de tête" on Japon with a watercolour by Zworykine.

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Russian fables for Europe: illustrated and translated

KRYLOV – KRILOFF, Ivan Andreevich

Basni russkiia [...] Fables russes [...] imitées en vers Français et Italiens par divers auteurs
Didot for Bossange, Paris, 1825. £8,750

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.

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Éditions de la Pléiade, J. Schiffrin, Paris, 1925. £5,250

One of the great artists' books of the Russian Paris school - here in the deluxe version on Japon Impérial: one of 18 copies only.

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Rare Russian fables from Ukraine

NAKHIMOV, Akim Nikolaevich

Sochineniia v stikhakh i proze [Works in Verse and Prose]
Universit. tip., Kharkov, 1815. £1,250

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.

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Svetlov-Fekula copy - one of 50 only

PUSHKIN, 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]
Lifar, Paris, 1934. £2,950

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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The failed revolt - very rare

[DECEMBRISTS]

Donesenie Varshavskogo komiteta [Report of the Warsaw Investigation Committee]
[Warsaw or St. Petersburg: probably at the Press of His Imperial Majesty's General Staff], 1826. £3,750

Very rare first edition of this important report on the Decembrists' revoltof the end of 1825. A lovely copy with contemporary provenance. Only one example traced outside Russia.

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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.

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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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Famous Russian 'livre d'artiste'

PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Aleksandr BENUA [BENOIS] (artist)

Pikovaia Dama [Queen of Spades]
Skt. Peterburg, P. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1911.

A novella masterpiece of Russian literature here in a celebrated edition finely illustrated by a major Russian artist and art historian. A beautiful production too, and this is an attractive example.

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Pushkin illustrated

PUSHKIN, Alexandr

Kapitanskaia Dochka [The Captain's Daughter]
A. I. Mamontov and Chardon-Wittman, Paris (plates only), for V. G. Gote, Moskva, 1891.

Very attractive copy of this typical example of Russian "artistic literature", finely produced almost a century after Pushkin's birth.

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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.

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