Foreign Literature

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This department specialises in rare and important works of French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and South American literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Here you can find first editions and signed or presentation copies of authors as diverse as Akhmatova, Balzac, Borges, Camus, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Goldoni, Hugo, Kafka, Leopardi, Lorca, Manzoni, Pirandello, Pushkin, Schiller, Tolstoy, Zola, and many others. Among the important works which have passed through our hands are the original working manuscript of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, now in the Pushkin House in St Petersburg, the only known copy of the first edition of Brecht's first play, Baal (1920) with his working notes, and an extraordinary collection of Pushkin first editions.

 
  1. GORODETSKII, Sergei Mitrofanovich.

    Iva. Piataia kniga stikhov [Willow....

    St Petersburg, ‘Shipovnik’, 1913.

    First edition. Well received by the critics,...

    £200

  2. GOUNOD, Charles François.

    A volume of ten songs bound together, all...

    London, 1870–3.

    Ten of Gounod’s London-published songs,...

    £2000

  3. [GOURAUD, Stéphane, known as:] GURO, Stepan Andreevich, chevalier de.

    Rech’ o deistvii prosveshcheniia na sostoianie...

    St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences,...

    First edition of an early speech on the...

    £400

  4. GRASS, Günter.

    Gleisdreieck.

    Darmstadt, Luchterhand, 1960.

    Rare first edition of this volume of poems...

    £100

  5. GRASS, Günter.

    Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten....

    Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 1965.

    First edition.

    £75

  6. GRASS, Günter.

    The Danzig Trilogy [The Tin Drum, Cat and...

    New York, Pantheon & Harcourt Brace &...

    First US editions, all translated by Ralph...

    £500

  7. GRASS, Günter.

    Selected Poems … With translations from...

    New York, Harcourt Brace & World Inc., 1966.

    First US edition, with the original German...

    £50

  8. GRIGOROVICH, Dmitrii Vasil’evich.

    Povesti i razskazy … Chast’ pervaia...

    Moscow, E. Barfknekht, 1858, & V. Grachev,...

    First collected edition of Grigorovich’s...

    £2000

  9. [GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Il Pastor Fido.

    ‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

    Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s...

    £175

  10. GUERRERO, Lila.

    Mis devociones.

    Buenos Aires, Ediciones Aconcagua, 1965.

    First and only edition of this collection...

    £400

  11. GUILLÉN, Jorge, and Reginald GIBBONS, translator.

    Fuera del mundo. Translated by Reginald Gibbons.

    Trenton, New Jersey, Eleutherian Printers,...

    First edition of the Spanish text and of...

    £550

  12. GÜIRALDES, Ricardo.

    ...

    Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Jose Tragant...

    First edition, scarce, Güiraldes’s first...

    £2000

  13. GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.

    Farforovyi pavil’on. Kitaiskie Stikhi...

    Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.

    Second edition (first 1918) of Gumilev’s...

    £100

  14. GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.

    Shater. Stikhi [The tent. Verses].

    Revel [i.e. Tallinn], ‘Bibliofil’,...

    First illustrated edition. ‘The publishing...

    £250

  15. GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich (translator). GAUTIER, Théophile.

    Emali i kamei [Émaux et camées].

    [St Petersburg, M. V. Popov, 1914.]

    First edition, very rare, of Gumilev’s...

    £850

  16. GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.

    Kolchan. 4-ia kniga stikhov. Izdanie vtoroe...

    [Second edition]. Petropolis, Berlin, 1923.

    Second edition of the collection of poems...

    £250

  17. [GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich, Osip MANDELSTAM, et al, translators.]

    Поэты французского Возрождения...

    Leningrad, Goslitizdat, 1938.

    First edition of a rare anthology of Russian...

    £1750

  18. GUSTÁ, Francisco.

    Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

    Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

    Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

    £550

  19. HAMSUN, Knut.

    Ny Jord. Roman.

    Copenhagen, P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1893.

    First edition of Shallow Soil, an...

    £200

  20. HARINGER, Jakob.

    Die Einsiedelei. Ein Stundenblatt. Nr....

    Amsterdam, Christof Brundel Verlag, [1930].

    First edition, rare, of a collection of...

    £250