VASNETSOV, Viktor (artist) and Aleksandr PUSHKIN
Pesn o Veshchem Olege [The Song of Wise Oleg]
Pesn o Veshchem Olege. [The Song of Wise Oleg]
Published/created in: [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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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 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.
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Gore ot uma. Komediia v chetyrekh deistviiakh, v stikhakh. [Woe from Wit. A Comedy in Four Acts in Verse]
Published/created in: 1854
£2,500
Rare small-format edition of this famous masterpiece of Russian theatre, a lovely copy with its original wrappers. No copy traced in WorldCat.
Read More Read MoreGERTSEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich [Alexander HERZEN]
Byloe i dumy: Pervoe polnoe izdanie [My Past and Thoughts: First Complete Edition]
Byloe i dumy: Pervoe polnoe izdanie. [My Past and Thoughts: First Complete Edition]
Published/created in: 1921
£750
First complete edition of Herzen's main work, containing "the broadest, most truthful and most penetrating overview of the Russian social and cultural history of the first half of the nineteenth century". A scarce edition, in five small volumes.
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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.
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Skazka ob Ivane Durake i ego dvukh bratiakh. [The Tale of Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers]
Published/created in: 1892
£650
Tolstoy banned in Russia: a rare edition of this novella, kept in its fragile wrappers. Printed in Leipzig; and also an unusual example of decorative wrappers on a Russian literary work.
Read More Read MoreNARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV
Basni Krylova [Krylov's Fables]
Basni Krylova. [Krylov's Fables]
Published/created in: [1912]
£850
Some of the most famous Russian fables here illustrated by the leading Ukrainian artist. Scarce in this lovely condition.
Read More Read MorePOLEVOI, Petr Nikolaevich (editor) and Ivan PANOV (artist)
Rodnye Otgoloski [Echoes from the Fatherland / Familiar Echoes]
Rodnye Otgoloski. [Echoes from the Fatherland / Familiar Echoes]
Published/created in: 1875 [censor's date]
£950
Beautifully fresh example of a fine production for young Russian readers, gathering great Russian poems together with many illustrations - a lovely, charming piece of book design. Rare without any foxing like here.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Pavel SOKOLOV (artist), among others
Evgenii Onegin. Roman [Eugene Onegin. A Novel]
Evgenii Onegin. Roman. [Eugene Onegin. A Novel]
Published/created in: 1893
£1,850
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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