Russian Emigre publications

Image for I. BRODSKII. Ostanovka v pustyne [Halt in Wilderness]. First edition, inscribed. New York, 1970. #2

Inscribed to a Jewish émigré journalist at BBC Russian

Ostanovka v pustyne [Halt in the Wilderness; also A Stop in a Desert]

Chekhov, Niu Iork, 1970. £3,500

First edition of this important poetry collection by "the most popular Russian poet of the second half of the 20th century" (Shubinskii). A fine example of the first issue, boldly inscribed.

Image for M. ZAITSEV. Three Russian Children Books. First editions, colour issue. Harbin, 1930s. #2

China-printed children books - the colour variant

ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]

Three Children Books: Liagushka-Tsarevna, Ivanushka i Alenushka, Baba Iaga [The Frog Princess; Ivan and Alenushka; Baba Yaga]

Kharbin, Zaitsev, [1930s]. £1,450

Attractive Russian children books produced in Kharbin, all three in the colour version and in fine condition.

Image for B. PASTERNAK. Doktor Zhivago. First edition. The Hague, 1958. #2

The remarkable CIA-backed first edition of a Nobel Prize

PASTERNAK, Boris

Doktor Zhivago

G. Feltrinelli, Milan [but Mouton, The Hague], 1958. £17,500

One of the most famous first editions of 20th-c. Russian literature: published by the CIA under a false imprint - or literature as a political weapon. A pleasant copy.

Image for ZHIGANOV-JIGANOFF. Russkie v Shankhaie. Russians in Shanghai. First edition. Shanghai, 1936. #2

Fascinating and impressive panorama of Russian emigration in China

ZHIGANOV – JIGANOFF, Vladimir

Russkie v Shankhaie. Russians in Shanghai

Slovo, Shanghai, 1936. £5,750

Fantastic publication on the important Russian community in 1920s-30s Shanghai. Wide-ranging, very richly illustrated, with a wealth of fascinating details. A lovely copy of the first edition, scarce.

Image for V. EROFEEV. Moskva-Petushki. First edition. Paris, 1977. #2

"One of the major achievements of Russian prose of the 20th century" (Oborin)

EROFEEV, Venedikt

Moskva-Petushki [Moscow-Petushki, also translated as Moscow to the End of the Line]

Floch, Mayenne, for YMCA-PRESS, Paris, 1977. £2,750

First book edition of one of the most famous Russian novels of the last century and a celebrated 'tamizdat'. Uncommon on the market, here in attractive condition.

Image for General GOLOVIN. Russian Military Efforts in the First World War. First expanded edition in Russia. Paris, 1939 #2

Fine example in lovely condition

GOLOVIN, N. N., General

Voennye usiliia Rossii v Mirovoi voine [Russian Military Efforts in the World War]

Tov. obedenennikh pisatelei, Parizh, 1939. £295

Comprehensive research on Russia's role in the First Wolrd War; an influential work, here in fine condition.

Image for GONCHAROVA & RUBAKIN. Gorod - La Cité. First edition, Miguet binding. Paris, 1920. #2

Goncharova's wide artistic spectrum

GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN

Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]

Parizh, [for the author], 1920. £6,250

Fine exampe of this great avant-garde production, strikingly illustrated by Goncharova and here housed in a Miguet binding.

Image for S. SORINE. Portraits. First edition, full morocco binding. Berlin, 1929. #2

Famous portraits luxuriously bound and with provenance

SORINE, Savely [Savelii Abramovich SORIN] (artist) and André SALMON

Portraits

Edition Ganymed, Berlin, 1929. £5,950

A large, famous publication showing the rich and famous of the roaring twenties: an attractive example of this uncommon publication, coming from a descendant of some of the people portrayed. With the maximum number of plates.

Image for BRODSKY. A Stop in the Desert. Poster signed by the author. First edition thus, Ardis, 1972. #2

Poetry on the wall - signed by the poet

BRODSKY, Iosif [Joseph BRODSKII] and Jamie FULLER (translator)

A Stop in a Desert

[Ardis, Ann Arbor, 1972]. £950

One of the earliest US publications by Brodsky and one of the first collaborations between him and Ardis, initiating a long-lasting and fruitful publishing history. Scarce poetical poster, with Brodsky's original signature.

Image for [SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH ROMANOV]. Sbornik. First edition, Novyi Sad-Belgrade, 1934. #2

Rare and richly illustrated

LASHKOV, S.I

Ego Imperatorskoe Vysochestvo Velikii Kniaz Sergei Mikhailovich.. [His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich [...] Reminiscences about His Life and Work, and about the Development of Artillery during His Lifetime]

S. Filonov, Novyi Sad, for Izd. tsentraln. Pravlen. Russkikh Ofitserov Artilleristov za-rubezhom, Belgrad, 1934. £375

Scarce émigré work commemorating a prominent member of the Romanov family, active during WWI and shot by the Bolsheviks; first edition, published in Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

Image for V. SIRIN [NABOKOV]. Invitation to a Beheading. First edition, original Russian. Paris, 1938. #2

Nabokov's political fiction

SIRIN, V. [pseud. for Vladimir NABOKOV]

Priglashenie na kazn [Invitation to a Beheading]

Dom Knigi, Parizh, 1938. £1,850

First ediion of Nabokov's last Russian novel printed in Paris, a work chosen by Radio Liberty to distribute clandestinely in USSR.

Image for HERZEN. Byloe i dumy. First complete edition of Herzen's main work. Belrin, 1921. #2

Not a friend of Romanovs' Russia

GERTSEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich [Alexander HERZEN]

Byloe i dumy: Pervoe polnoe izdanie [My Past and Thoughts: First Complete Edition]

Slovo, Berlin, 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.

Image for L. TOLSTOY. Kritika dogmaticheskogo bogosloviia [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]. First edition, rare. Geneva, 1891-96. #2

First copy on the market in 40 years

TOLSTOY, Lev

Kritika dogmaticheskago bogosloviia [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]

Obshchee delo for M. Elpidine, Geneve, 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.

Image for JABOTINSKY, V. Piatero, rare first edition in original Russian, 1936. #2

Odessa sung by her celebrated Zionist son

ZHABOTINSKII, V. (ALTALENA) [also JABOTINSKY]

Piatero [The Five]

Parizh, Ars, 1936. £4,950

Very rare first edition of Jabotinsky's best novel: one of 75 copies on papier Japon, out of a total printrun of only 125 copies. A fine novel about Jabotinsky's native city in Ukraine, Odessa, far from his important Zionist militant activities. In original Russian.

Image for J. BRODSKY. Two volumes of poetry. First editions, inscribed. Ann Arbor, 1977. #2

Nobel-Prize winning poetry pre- and post-emigration - "avec best pozhelaniiami"

BRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]

Konets prekrasnoi epokhi. Stikhotvoreniia 1964-1971 [with] Chast rechi. Stikhotvoreniia 1972-1976 [The End of a Beautiful Era. Poems 1964-1971 [with] Part of Speech. Poems 1972-1976].

Ardis, Ann Arbor, 1977. £7,750

Great gathering of both volumes, in first editions, both inscribed to Vandelos-Legkaia, a figure of the Russian community in the USA.

Image for S. DOVLATOV. Marsh odinikikh. First edition, inscribed. Holyoke, 1983. #2

A chronicle of the early 1980s in the US Russian community

DOVLATOV, Sergei

Marsh odinokikh [The March of the Lonely]

Holyoke, New England Publishing Co, 1983. £2,250

First edition thus, inscribed to a fellow journalist and author.

Image for S. DOVLATOV. Nashi [Ours]. First edition, inscribed. Ann Arbor, 1983. #2

"One only wants to be like Chekhov"

DOVLATOV, Sergei

Nashi [Ours]

Ardis, Ann Arbor, 1983. £2,500

First edition of this collection of short stories by the famous Russian author. An appealing example, inscribed by Dovlatov to a figure of the US Russian emigration.

Image for S. DOVLATOV. Zona. First edition, inscribed. Ann Arbor, 1982. #2

His "most important book" - inscribed

DOVLATOV, Sergei

Zona: zapiski nadziratelia [The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story]

Ermitazh, Ann Arbor, 1982. £3,000

First edition Dovlatov's famous work, inscribed to a figure of the Russian emigration in the US.

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