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Image for KAMPE & SHISHKOV. Detskaia biblioteka. Very rare Russian edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1799-1800 #1

Important early book for Russian children - with a sewn translation label

KAMPE [CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich; and Aleksandr Semenovich SHISHKOV, translator]

Detskaia biblioteka.. [Children's library [ie. Kleine Kinderbibliothek]...]

£3,950

Important early book for Russian children - with a sewn translation label
KAMPE [CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich; and Aleksandr Semenovich SHISHKOV, translator]. Detskaia biblioteka... [Children's library [ie. Kleine Kinderbibliothek]...]
Published/created in: [c. 1799]

£3,950

More than a translation, an original adaptation, dedicated to Princess Dahskova, the first woman head of an Academy of Sciences and first female member of the American Philosophical Society. A very rare early edition of this important book for Russian children - and a lovely example with a sewn translation label!

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]

£6,250

Goncharova's wide artistic spectrum
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN. Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité. [The City. Poems]
Published/created in: 1920

£6,250

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

Image for SYMEON the New Theologian. Practical Words. Russian manuscript with female provenance. ca. 1820-50 #2

Spiritual thoughts, presented to a business woman

SIMEON, Novyi Bogoslov [SYMEON, the New Theologian]

Prepodobnogo ottsa nashego Simeona Novago Bogoslova...slovesa zelo polezna [Practical Words]

£2,950

Spiritual thoughts, presented to a business woman
SIMEON, Novyi Bogoslov [SYMEON, the New Theologian]. Prepodobnogo ottsa nashego Simeona Novago Bogoslova...slovesa zelo polezna. [Practical Words]
Published/created in: early to mid-19th century]

£2,950

Lovely manuscript of 'Words' still unpublished at the time. In unusually fresh condition on fine blue paper and presented to a Russian business woman.

Image for REMIZOV & TUROVA. Snezhok. First edition, hand-coloured. Petrograd, 1918. #2

Avant-garde children book in post-revolutionary Petrograd

TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Aleksei REMIZOV

Snezhok [Snowball]

£2,500

Avant-garde children book in post-revolutionary Petrograd
TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Aleksei REMIZOV. Snezhok. [Snowball]
Published/created in: [1918]

£2,500

Fine example of this rare, fragile edition of the Russian avant-garde, in the preferred version with original hand-colouring.

Image for KHLEBNIKOV & others. Bez Muz [Without Muses]. First edition. Nizhnii-Novgorod, 1918. #2

Avant-garde poetry just after the Revolution

KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir, R. IVNEV, S. SPASSKIY and others

Bez Muz: khudozhestvennoe periodicheskoe izdanie [Without Muses: Literary Magazine]

£850

Avant-garde poetry just after the Revolution
KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir, R. IVNEV, S. SPASSKIY and others. Bez Muz: khudozhestvennoe periodicheskoe izdanie. [Without Muses: Literary Magazine]
Published/created in: [June] 1918

£850

Large-format poetry collection published in Nizhnii-Novgorod and including a first appearance of Khlebnikov, together with many avant-gardist poets. Very rare outside Russia.

Image for Rakhil KOFF-LAIF. English penmanship. Rotaprint based on the first edition. Ukraine, 1960s. #2

Very rare production of a Ukrainian rotaprint

KOFF-LAIF, Rakhil Iosifovna

English penmanship. Angliiskaia kalligrafiia

£750

Very rare production of a Ukrainian rotaprint
KOFF-LAIF, Rakhil Iosifovna. English penmanship. Angliiskaia kalligrafiia.
Published/created in: early 1960s]

£750

How to write English in the USSR, by a Jewish American teacher, produced in Ukraine and very rare such.

Image for POUCHKINE. Ruslan et Ludmila, première édition en vers, avec envoi, Paris, 1898. #2

Inscribed by the translator, a feminist character

[PUSHKIN] – Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)

Rouslane et Ludmile

£2,450

Inscribed by the translator, a feminist character
[PUSHKIN] - Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist). Rouslane et Ludmile.
Published/created in: 1898

£2,450

The first complete poetic French translation of Pushkin's celebrated work. Strikingly illustrated by an original Russian female artist, and this copy inscribed by the translator: a politically-engaged playwright and one of the main figures of the feminist theatre movement in France. Rarely found, and only 500 copies printed.

Image for Burliuk, Exter, Vasilieva, Livshits, Futuristy, inscribed, 1914 #1

Warmly inscribed by Burliuk

BURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author)

Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy" [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]

£2,950

Warmly inscribed by Burliuk
BURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author). Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy". [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
Published/created in: 1914

£2,950

First edition of this collection of futurist poetry, inscribed by Burliuk to "the best customer" Lev Grinkrug. A lovely book, finely illustrated with plates by Burliuk and two famous Russian avant-garde female artists: Exter and Vasilieva.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Poet i vremia. First edition. Prague, 1932. #2

The great poetess' comments on poetry

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Poet i vremia [The Poet and Time]

£650

The great poetess' comments on poetry
TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna. Poet i vremia. [The Poet and Time]
Published/created in: 1932

£650

Scarce first publication of Tsvetaeva's important essay on poetry.

Image for GONCHAROVA & LARIONOV. L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne. First edition, Paris, 1919. #2

Ballets Russes innovations in large pochoirs

GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH

L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne

£10,000

Ballets Russes innovations in large pochoirs
GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH. L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne.
Published/created in: 1919

£10,000

Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.

Image for TRAUBERG & KHODASEVICH. Akter amerikanskogo kino [Actor of American Cinema]. First edition, Leningrad, 1927. #2

"Through the USA - to the USSR" (p. 10)

TRAUBERG, Il[ia] and V[alentina] KHODASEVICH (artist)

Akter amerikanskogo kino [The Actor in American Cinema]

£750

"Through the USA - to the USSR" (p. 10)
TRAUBERG, Il[ia] and V[alentina] KHODASEVICH (artist). Akter amerikanskogo kino. [The Actor in American Cinema]
Published/created in: 1927

£750

First edition of this scarce, developed study of American cinema in the 1920s. A pleasant copy, in its original photomontage wrappers.

Image for SARYKULOVA. Grafika Kazakhstana. First edition, Antoshchenko-Olenev's copy. Alma-Ata, 1967. #2

Kazakh art by a woman art historian - with provenance

SARYKULOVA, Gul-Chara [Abutalipovna]

Grafika Kazakhstana [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]

£1,750

Kazakh art by a woman art historian - with provenance
SARYKULOVA, Gul-Chara [Abutalipovna]. Grafika Kazakhstana. [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]
Published/created in: 1967

£1,750

A groundbreaking work on art from Kazakhstan, written by a major female figure of Kazakh art history - this copy with great artistic provenance. First edition, uncommon, a choice copy.

Image for A. AKHMATOVA. 50 Stikhotvorenii [50 Poems]. Paris, 1963. In fine condition. #2

Unauthorised edition

AKHMATOVA, Anna

50 stikhotvorenii [50 poems]

£650

Unauthorised edition
AKHMATOVA, Anna. 50 stikhotvorenii. [50 poems]
Published/created in: 1963

£650

Fine copy, in its original printed wrappers, of this large-format edition of some of the poems of Russia's great poetess. Printed with a mimeograph machine.

Image for PICASSO, GONCHAROVA, LARIONOV etc. Grand Bal Travesti - Transmental. First edition, Paris, 1923. #2

The complete set

LARIONOV, M[ikhail], Nataliia GONCHAROVA, Ilia ZDANEVICH, [Pablo] PICASSO and others

Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill]

£1,950

The complete set
LARIONOV, M[ikhail], Nataliia GONCHAROVA, Ilia ZDANEVICH, [Pablo] PICASSO and others. Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill].
Published/created in: 1923

£1,950

Lovely gathering of three 'ephemera' items produced for the first Russian ball of the avant-garde in Paris - an eclectic show with music and dances in newly designed costumes. With Larionov's ticket, Goncharova's handbill and the famous programme with many artistic contributions.

Image for A. AKHMATOVA. Belaia staia. Third edition, Peterburg, 1922. #2

When she was still allowed in Soviet Union

AKHMATOVA, Anna

Belaia staia [White Flock]

£375

When she was still allowed in Soviet Union
AKHMATOVA, Anna. Belaia staia. [White Flock]
Published/created in: 1922

£375

Fresh example of this uncommon, early edition of Akhmatova's third book.

Image for AKHMATOVA, A. U samogo moria. First edition, 1921. #2

A Black Sea youth

AKHMATOVA, Anna

U samogo moria [At the Edge of the Sea]

£750

A Black Sea youth
AKHMATOVA, Anna. U samogo moria. [At the Edge of the Sea]
Published/created in: 1921

£750

The first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship.

Image for L. TOLSTOY and A. SEURON. Nikolai Palkin and other works. 1895-1903. #2

Tolstoy's life and thoughts: a gathering of scarce pamphlets

TOLSTOY, 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]

£1,500

Tolstoy's life and thoughts: a gathering of scarce pamphlets
TOLSTOY, 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]
Published/created in: 1899, 1895 and [1903]

£1,500

Banned works, illustrated tales, and memoirs of his household: a fine group of works by and about Tolstoy, most in first editions in Russian.

Image for BALLETS RUSSES: BARBIER and YORKE, Three works, First editions, 1913-20. #2

Dancing stars in more than 30 pochoir plates and attractively bound

BARBIER, George, and Arabella YORKE (artists), Jean-Louis VAUDOYER, Francis de MIOMANDRE and Cyril BEAUMONT

Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina [BOUND WITH] The Art of Lydia Lopokova [BOUND WITH] Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky

£12,500

Dancing stars in more than 30 pochoir plates and attractively bound
BARBIER, George, and Arabella YORKE (artists), Jean-Louis VAUDOYER, Francis de MIOMANDRE and Cyril BEAUMONT. Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina [BOUND WITH] The Art of Lydia Lopokova [BOUND WITH] Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Published/created in: 1914, 1920 and 1913

£12,500

Scarce gathering of Yorke's beautiful and rare publication and both Barbier's 'albums', all bound at the time in a fine blue calf signed binding - a fine volume indeed.

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