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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

MELGUNOV, Sergei, Na putiakh k dvortsovomu perevorotu (zagovory pered revoliutsii 1917 goda)

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

BELZEN, Ia. Ia. (artist), Geroi Smutnogo Vremeni

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 SOLZHENITSYN, Odin den Ivana Denisovicha, London, 1962. First edition. #1

In striking wrappers

SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich

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

£2,500

SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich, Odin den Ivana Denisovicha

First edition of the celebrated author's first book § a famous 'pirate' edition published without Solzhenitsyn's consent. A very good copy, with the striking original wrappers.

Image for GROSSMAN, V. Vse techet. Posev, 1974 #2

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"A bitter indictment of the Soviet system" (Terras)

GROSSMAN, Vasilii

Vse techet [Everything flows]

GROSSMAN, Vasilii, Vse techet

Grossman's first novel being published abroad, and banned in Soviet Union until 1989. Pleasant example of this larger format edition.

Image for G. ROSIMOV. Petrushka's Extraordinary Journey to the Moon. First edition, Berlin, 1922. #2

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Colourful life on the moon

ROSIMOV, Georgii [pseud. of Iurii OFROSIMOV, and Alfred ZANGERL (artist)]

Neobychainoe puteshestvie Petrushki na lunu [Petrushka's Extraordinary Journey to the Moon]

ROSIMOV, Georgii [pseud. of Iurii OFROSIMOV, and Alfred ZANGERL (artist)], Neobychainoe puteshestvie Petrushki na lunu

A rare and finely illustrated children book, with an interesting original story related to the fate of the Russian émigrés in Berlin (and elsewhere). A very good example of the first edition.

Image for DAVIDENKOV, Iurii. Russian in Australia, issue of November 1957. #1

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The Russian community and litterature in Australia

DAVIDENKOV, Iurii (editor)

Russkii v Avstralii [The Russian in Australia]

DAVIDENKOV, Iurii (editor), Russkii v Avstralii

A 1957 issue of the magazine of the Russian community in Australia, with news, comments, literature and religious, military and anti-Soviet pieces.

Image for ZAITSEV, M. Liagushka-Tsarevna. Kharbin, 1930s #2

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China-printed children book

ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]

Liagushka-Tsarevna [The Frog Princess]

ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher], Liagushka-Tsarevna

Lovely children book produced in Harbin/Kharbin, in an interesting variant.

Image for P. KHOLODNY. Ukrainska abetka. New York, 1950s-60s. First edition. #2

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Ukrainian in the USA

KHOLODNY, Petro (artist)

Ukrainska abetka [Ukrainian ABC]

KHOLODNY, Petro (artist), Ukrainska abetka

Very attractive and remarkably rare ABC, created by a son of the Ukrainian Minister of Education. A fine example.

Image for TSVETAEVA, Lebedinyi Stan, first edition. Munich, 1957. #2

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The unpublishable finally published

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Lebedinyi stan [A Swans' Wedge. Poems from 1917-1921]

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna, Lebedinyi stan

First edition of this important cycle about the Revolution and the Civil War, impossible to publish in the USSR and even abroad for several decades. A very good copy.

Image for TOLSTOY, L. Recent Stories and Articles. First book edition, Berlin, 1894. #1

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A Tolstoy rarity

Poslednie rasskazy i statii [Recent Stories and Articles]

TOLSTOY, Leo, Poslednie rasskazy i statii

Tolstoy the Wise and the Experienced, here in a series of writings difficult to publish in full in Tsarist Russia. A very rare edition, here in its original wrappers.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Stikhi k Bloku. First edition, Berlin, 1922. #2

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A great poetess to a great poet

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Stikhi k Bloku [Poems to Blok]

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna, Stikhi k Bloku

Tsvetaeva's second poetry cycle published in exile, dedicated to a major Russian poet who died the year before, with the first publication of Tsvetaeva's 'Podruga' dedicated to Blok's lover. Lovely copy of this first edition.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Razluka, first edition. Berlin, 1922. #2

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Exempt of any restoration

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Razluka [Separation]

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna, Razluka

A very attractive example of this fragile production, Tsvetaeva's first poetry collection published abroad. First edition.

Image for PASTERNAK, B. Doktor Zhivago. Milan, 1959. First Feltrinelli edition, with dust-jacket #1

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A most famous edition, with literary provenance

PASTERNAK, Boris

Doktor Zhivago

PASTERNAK, Boris, Doktor Zhivago

A very good example of this important edition of the Nobel Prize laureate, with literary provenance.

Image for TUROVEROV, ACHAIR, GUSEV and others. Archive relating to the Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov. Kharbin & Paris, 1937-44. #2

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From Kharbin to Asnières

TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others

Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive

TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others, Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive

Fine group of letters and other documents relating to the émigré literary activity before and during WWII - from Kharbin to Paris and its surroundings.

Image for GRINEV, P. Kak umiraiut v SSSR. First edition, New York, 1954 #2

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At the heart of the Cold War

Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R [How They Die in the USSR. Issue 1 [and only]]

GRINEV, P, Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R

Fine example of this rare NY-printed pamphlet against the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular.

Image for LAVROVSKII, M. Geografiia vseia Rusi. First edition, New York, 1914. #2

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The Jewish question before the Revolution

LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich]

Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia [Geography of all Russia: Satire. A useful guide for the unconscious]

LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich], Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia

An early émigré publication, printed in New York before the Revolution, and criticsing Russia's autocracy, with a focus on the conditions of the Jewish people.

Image for ORZHIKH, B. Albom Bortsov za Svobodu. Nagasaki, 1907. First edition, with wrappers. #2

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With the striking wrappers

Albom Bortsov za Svobodu [Album of Freedom Fighters, Pt.1 [all published]]

ORZHIKH, Boris, Albom Bortsov za Svobodu

Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers.

Image for RUF ANANIN, Kharbin v krivom zerkale, 1930s, complete set of postcards. #2

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"International city": Russian caricatures in Japanese China

RUF [pseud. for Ruf Sozonovich ANANIN] (artist)

Kharbin v krivom zerkale [Harbin in a crooked mirror]

RUF [pseud. for Ruf Sozonovich ANANIN] (artist), Kharbin v krivom zerkale

Witty depictions of the Russian diaspora in Harbin under Japanese occupation. A complete set of these fine postcards, within the printed wrappers: very rare so.

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