BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)
Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]
A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced.
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First book edition of this groundbreaking novel, a cornerstone of Russian literature and, by its influence, political thought. A pleasant example in contemporary binding. Very rare.
Read More Read MoreTOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich, Anna SEIRON [SEURON] and Nadezhda ZHIVAGO (artist)
Nikolai Palkin. Rabotnik Emelian i pustoi baraban. Dorogo Stoit [BOUND WITH:] Shest let v dome grafa Lva Nikolaievicha Tolstogo [AND WITH:] Assiriiskii tsar Assarkhadon. Tri voprosa [Nikolai "The Beater". Emelian the Worker and the Empty Drum. Too Dear! [BOUND WITH:] Six Years at the Household of the Count Tolstoy [BOUND WITH:] The Assyrian King Assarkhadon. Three questions]
Banned works, illustrated tales, and memoirs of his household: a fine group of works by and about Tolstoy, most in first editions in Russian.
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"Political anti-Semitism', to be distinguished from a racial one: first edition of this scarce work, which also gives an account of the situation of the Jews in Russia.
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Two issues of a very rare, almost home-made magazine for Russian émigrés in the US.
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Against Western - but also Soviet - anti-Russian propaganda. By a military priest who first emigrated to Kharbin before the USA.
Read More Read MorePRUTKOV, Kozma, Dmitrii MINAEV, Anna BARYKOVA, Stepan RUDANSKYI and others
Iumoristicheskii chtets-deklamator. Polnoe sobranie samykh luchshikh stikhotvorenii [Humorous Reader-Reciter. Complete Collection of the Very Best Poems]
Small-format émigré edition to make the Russophones in America laugh. Extremely rare: no copy traced except one in St. Petersburg.
Read More Read MoreLINSKII, Mikhail, Mikhail DRIZO (pseud. MAD), Arkadii AVERCHENKO and others
Bich. Bitche [Whip]
Complete set of this scarce satirical periodical of the Russophone community in Paris. With a wealth of caricatural drawings and wide-ranging texts.
Read More Read MoreKHOLMSTON-SMYSLOVSKII, [Boris]
Izbrannye stati i rechi [Selected Articles and Speeches]
A volume of essays by a Russian anti-communist general, published in South America, where he advised the Argentinian president.
Read More Read More[NABOKOV, Vladimir, A. BLOK, TEFFI, A. REMIZOV and others]
Rodnaia Zemlia, Sbornik 1-2 [The Native Land; First [and] Second Collection]
Possibly the earliest appearance of Nabokov in the West - together with several works many other important authors. A fine example in original wrappers.
Read More Read MoreCHERNYI, Sasha (pseud. for Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG) and Boris GRIGORIEV (artist)
Detskii ostrov [The Children's Island]
Grigoriev's famous children book, in the original publisher's binding; a very good example.
Read More Read MoreSHKLOVSKII, Viktor and El LISITSKII [LISSITZKY] (artist)
Zoo. Pisma ne o liubvi ili tretia Eloiza [Zoo. Letters Not About Love or the Third Eloise]
Cover design by El Lissitzky for this depiction of the Russian emigration in Berlin in the Golden Twenties.
The preferred first edition, rarer than the Russian one published shortly afterwards.
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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.
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