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Image for ERMOLOV, Aleksei. Zapiski o Voine 1812go. London, 1863. #2

50 years later... still forbidden in Russia

ERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV

Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]

£1,250

50 years later... still forbidden in Russia
ERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV. Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda. [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Published/created in: 1863

£1,250

Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.

Image for BASHILOV, B. History of Russian Freemasonry. 1950s-60s, Argentina. First edition, complete. #2

Complete set in fine condition

BASHILOV, Boris [pseud. for Boris IURKEVICH]

Istoriia russkogo masonstva [History of Freemasonry in Russia]

£1,500

Complete set in fine condition
BASHILOV, Boris [pseud. for Boris IURKEVICH]. Istoriia russkogo masonstva. [History of Freemasonry in Russia]
Published/created in: 1950s-60s

£1,500

First significant work on the Russian masons - biaised as it'd be expected, but extensive. Rarely found complete and in such an attractive condition.

Image for SOLZHENITSYN, A. Odin den Ivana Denisovicha. First edition, Flegon, London, 1962. #1

With the rarest cover variant

SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich

Odin den Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]

£4,750

With the rarest cover variant
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich. Odin den Ivana Denisovicha. [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]
Published/created in: [1962]

£4,750

First edition of Solzhenitsyn's first book - here with the very rare variant of the cover showing a watchtower. A fine example of this great novel.

Image for SHALAMOV, V. Kolymskie rasskazy. First edition, 1978. #1

With provenance

SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich

[Kolyma Stories] Kolymskie rasskazy

£1,250

With provenance
SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich. [Kolyma Stories]. Kolymskie rasskazy
Published/created in: 1978

£1,250

First edition of this classic of "GULAG literature", with literary provenance.

Image for Bulgakov, Heart of Dog, first Russian book edition, Paris, YMCA, 1969. #2

U-u-u-u-u-u... in first edition

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Sobache serdtse [Heart of a Dog]

£1,450

U-u-u-u-u-u... in first edition
BULGAKOV, Mikhail. Sobache serdtse. [Heart of a Dog]
Published/created in: 1969

£1,450

Uncommon first book edition in Russian of Bulgakov's suppressed satirical masterpiece. A lovely copy in its original wrappers by Annenkov.

Image for Fletcher, Of the Russe Commonwealth, first Russian book edition, very rare. Geneva, Kasatkin, 1867. #1

Banned Russian edition of a banned English book

FLETCHER, Dzhails [Giles]

O gosudarstve russkom, ili Obraz pravleniia russkago tsaria (obyknovenno nazyvaemago tsarem moskovskim). S opisaniiem nravov i obychaev zhitelei etoi strany [Of the Rvsse Common Wealth: Of the Russian State, or the Manner of Government of the Russian Emperor]

£6,750

Banned Russian edition of a banned English book
FLETCHER, Dzhails [Giles]. O gosudarstve russkom, ili Obraz pravleniia russkago tsaria (obyknovenno nazyvaemago tsarem moskovskim). S opisaniiem nravov i obychaev zhitelei etoi strany. [Of the Rvsse Common Wealth: Of the Russian State, or the Manner of Government of the Russian Emperor]
Published/created in: 1867

£6,750

First Russian book edition -banned- of Fletcher's famous -and banned- description of Russia which first appeared in 1591. A very rare edition, printed in Geneva by Russian revolutionaries, in a fine, fresh example.

Image for Akhmatova, Brodsky and others, Important poems and other texts, incl. Poem bez geroia [Poem Without a Hero], first editions. #1

The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set

AKHMATOVA, Anna, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Vladimir NABOKOV, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al

Vozdushnye Puti [Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]

£1,500

The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set
AKHMATOVA, Anna, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Vladimir NABOKOV, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al. Vozdushnye Puti. [Airways. Almanach. Vols I-V]
Published/created in: 1960-67

£1,500

The first publication of Akhmatova's 'Poem Without a Hero' [Poem bez geroia] - as well as many other works by some of the best Russian poets and authors of the 20th century: a complete set of this important literary almanac, rare so.

Image for Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog, first publication in Russian, Flegon, 1968. #1

U-u-u-u-u-u....: the first publication

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Sobache serdtse [Heart of a Dog]

£1,000

U-u-u-u-u-u....: the first publication
BULGAKOV, Mikhail. Sobache serdtse. [Heart of a Dog]
Published/created in: 1968

£1,000

First publication in Russian of Bulgakov's suppressed satirical masterpiece, banned in Soviet Union until 20 years later.

Image for Melgunov, Towards a Palace Coup, first edition, 1931 #1

In lovely condition

MELGUNOV, Sergei

Na putiakh k dvortsovomu perevorotu (zagovory pered revoliutsii 1917 goda) [On the Paths Towards a Palace Coup (plots ahead of the 1917 Revolution)]

£175

In lovely condition
MELGUNOV, Sergei. Na putiakh k dvortsovomu perevorotu (zagovory pered revoliutsii 1917 goda). [On the Paths Towards a Palace Coup (plots ahead of the 1917 Revolution)]
Published/created in: 1931

£175

Rather objective historical analysis of the Russian political plots around Tsar Nicholas II before the revolution. A fine example of the first edition.

Image for BELZEN, Geroi Smutnogo Vremeni, album of Russian caricatures of the Civil War, Berlin, 1921. #2

Large political caricatures of a troubled year

BELZEN, Ia. Ia. (artist)

Geroi Smutnogo Vremeni [Heroes of Troubled Times]

£1,950

Large political caricatures of a troubled year
BELZEN, Ia. Ia. (artist). Geroi Smutnogo Vremeni. [Heroes of Troubled Times]
Published/created in: 1921

£1,950

Very rare album of full-page satirical illustrations of the situation in Russia during the turbulent years of the Civil War. Published in Berlin in 1921, and particularly remarkbale for its even-handed swipe at all participants in the War. Only three copies traced in Western public institutions.

Image for BRODSKY. Ostanovka v pustyne, samizdat. USSR, early 1970s. #2

Out of stock

Samizdat of a future Nobel Prize winner

BRODSKY, Joseph

Ostanovka v pustyne [A halt in the desert]

Samizdat of a future Nobel Prize winner
BRODSKY, Joseph. Ostanovka v pustyne. [A halt in the desert]
Published/created in: 1970 or early 1970s]

£2,250

Fine example of a Brdosky's poetry in Soviet samizdat - rare.

Image for ORWELL. Homage to Catalonia. First Russian edition. Louvain/Paris, ca. 1971. #2

Out of stock

With a publication history still unclear

ORVELL, Dzhordzh [George ORWELL]

Pamiati Katalonii [with] Vspominaia Ispanskuiu voinu [Homage to Catalonia [with] Looking Back on the Spanish War]

With a publication history still unclear
ORVELL, Dzhordzh [George ORWELL]. Pamiati Katalonii [with] Vspominaia Ispanskuiu voinu. [Homage to Catalonia [with] Looking Back on the Spanish War]
Published/created in: [c. 1971]

£650

Clandestine, CIA-funded first edition in Russian of Orwell's memoirs about the Spanish Civil War. An important edition with a secret publication history.

Image for [RUSSIANS in CHINA]. Two Menus in Russian. Warsaw and Yingkou, 1900. #2

Out of stock

Gastronomical joys of the Russian military in the midst of the Boxer Uprising in China

[GASTRONOMY – RUSSIAN CHINA]

Two Menus

Gastronomical joys of the Russian military in the midst of the Boxer Uprising in China
[GASTRONOMY - RUSSIAN CHINA]. Two Menus.
Published/created in: 1900]

£1,300

Lovely menus related to Dmitrii Oznobishin and his assigmnments in China. One menu is fully watercoloured (not printed), the other a fine chromolithograph - abundantly inscribed and signed by Oznobishin's friends and colleagues.

Image for GONCHAROVA & RUBAKIN. Gorod. La Cité. Paris, 1920. First edition, Copy num. 4. #2

Out of stock

Copy N° 4 in a Monique Mathieu binding

GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN

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

Copy N° 4 in a Monique Mathieu binding
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN. Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité. [The City. Poems]
Published/created in: 1920

£12,500

An excellent example from the 25 copies on china paper ('tirage de tête'), in a binding by one of the best French binders. First edition of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova.

Image for Ilf & Petrov, Ostap Bender: second part of The Golden Calf, first edition in wrappers, Riga, 1931 #1

Out of stock

The Twelve Chairs carry on

ILF i PETROV [ie. Ilya ILF and Evgeny PETROV]

Novyia pokhozhdeniia Ostapa Bendera: Kniga vtoraia romana "Zolotoi telenok" [New Adventures of Ostap Bender: Second part of the novel "The Golden Calf"].

The Twelve Chairs carry on
ILF i PETROV [ie. Ilya ILF and Evgeny PETROV]. Novyia pokhozhdeniia Ostapa Bendera: Kniga vtoraia romana "Zolotoi telenok". [New Adventures of Ostap Bender: Second part of the novel "The Golden Calf"].
Published/created in: 1931

£1,500

After "The Twelve Chairs": rare first edition of the second part of "The Golden Calf", Ilf and Petrov's beloved masterpiece of Soviet satire. A lovely example in original wrappers and published outside the Soviet Union.

Image for A. AKHMATOVA., Rekviem [Requiem]. First edition, Munich. 1963 #2

Out of stock

Celebrated poetical tamizdat

AKHMATOVA, Anna

Rekviem [Requiem]

Celebrated poetical tamizdat
AKHMATOVA, Anna. Rekviem. [Requiem]
Published/created in: 1963

£1,000

First edition of one of Akhmatova's most famous works, considered by many to be her finest. An important tamizdat of one of the best Russian poets; one of 500 copies only.

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

Out of stock

"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]

"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]
Published/created in: 1977

£2,450

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 lovely condition.

Out of stock

"Imenno tak tolko i mozhno perevodit"

TEFFI, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna

Autograph Letter to Natalia Vladimirovna LIMANT-IVANOVA, with the Latter's Autograph Note

"Imenno tak tolko i mozhno perevodit"
TEFFI, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna. Autograph Letter to Natalia Vladimirovna LIMANT-IVANOVA, with the Latter's Autograph Note.
Published/created in: [late July-early August] 1929

£800

A fine letter by Teffi about her works' translation into French, with some explanations of certain Russian words.

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