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Image for SHAKESPEARE & A. SOKOLOVSKII. Midsummer Night's Dream & Julius Caesar in Russian translations. St. Petersburg, 1885. #2

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Two-in-one

SHEKSPIR, Uilliam [William SHAKESPEARE] and Aleksandr SOKOLOVSKII (translator)

Son v letniuiu noch [bound with] Iulii Tsezar [A Midsummer Night's Dream [bound with] Julius Caesar]

Landau, Skt. Peterburg, 1885.

Two first editions in one volume, by the man who translated all Shakespeare's significant plays for the first time. A pleasant example of this rarity: no other copy traced outside Russia.

Image for A. CHEKHOV. Pesy [Plays]. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1897. #2

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First edition of Chekhov's first collection of plays

Chekhov, Anton

Pesy [Plays]

А.S. Suvorin, Skt Peterburg, 1897.

Fine example of this important book in Russian literature, with some of Chekhov's most famous plays.

Image for A. CHEKHOV. Tri Sestry. First edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1901. #2

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Chekhov at his best

CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich

Tri Sestry. Drama v 4-kh deistviiakh [Three Sisters. A Drama in Four Acts]

A.F.Marks, Skt Peterburg, 1901.

First separate edition of this major play, very rare.

Image for SHAKESPEARE & GOLDBERG, Romeo and Juliette in Yiddish, first edition, Minsk, 1935; inscribed. #2

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First in Yiddish - inscribed

SHAKESPEARE, William and I. GOLDBERG (translator)

Romeo un Zshulyete: tragedya in finf aktn [Romeo and Juliet: the Tragedy in Five Acts]

Minsk, Melukh-farlag fun Vaysrusland. Natssekter, 1935.

Lovely example of a rare book: the first 'Romeo and Juliet' published in Yiddish, here in fine condition and inscribed by the translator to a famous Yiddish author and professor.

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Inscribed to Proust's Russian-born friend

BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER

Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina

Collections Pierre Corrard, Paris, 1914.

A classic Ballets-Russes work inscribed to a Russian-born Parisian lady, while she was helping Proust publishing the beginning of his 'Recherche': a fine example of the first edition of this famous work.

Image for SHAKESPEARE & PASTERNAK. Hamlet. Moscow, 1941. #2

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Hamlet in war time

SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris PASTERNAK (translator)

Gamlet. Prints Datskii. Tragediia [The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]

Moskva, Goslitizdat, 1941.

First separate edition of Shakespeare's famous tragedy in Pasternak's fine translation. A pleasant example of this scarce edition.

Image for KAMENSKII, V. Kniga o Evreinove. First edition, Petrograd, 1917. #2

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Avant-garde theatre in pre-revolutionary Russia

[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich

Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]

Sovremennoe Iskusstvo, Butkovskaia, Petrograd, 1917.

Avant-garde theatre - including Wilde and Beardsley - through the eyes of an avant-garde poet, artist and aviator. Published the year of the Revolution, by an important theatre woman.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Konets Kazanovy. Moscow, 1922. #2

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The great Russian poetess on stage

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Konets Kazanovy [The End of Casanova]

Sozvezdie, Moskva, 1922.

Tsvetaeva's play in verses and 'declaration of love for Casanova'. The only life-time book edition - with the original decorated wrappers.

Image for GLADKY, S. & A. SALMON. Synthese du costume theatral. First edition, Paris, 1927. #2

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Cubist theatrical impressions

GLADKY, Serge (artist, also Serhii HLADKY) and André SALMON

Synthèse du costume théâtral

Ducros et Colas for Le Théâtre Mondial, Paris, 1927.

One of only 170 copies of this beautiful album of fresh and striking plates. In a fine modern binding.

Image for BAKST, L. Inedited works. First edition with dust jacket. 1927 #2

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In luminous pochoir with silver highlights

[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER

Inedited Works of Bakst

Brentano's, New York, 1927.

Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, here with the rare dust-jacket in very good condition.

Image for Broadsides on animal fighting in 1830s Russia #1

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Now extinct dogs fighting in 1830s Moscow

[BAITING DOGS]

Obiavlenie [Announcement]

Mosk. Vedomosti, Mosk. Universitet, Moskva, 1833.

Two consecutive illustrated Russia broadsides announcing different rounds of large wild animal baiting in Pushkin's 1830s Moscow, involving the now-extinct Medelyan dogs.

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