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[EL CID.] CHUDINOV, Aleksandr, translator.
Poema i izbrannye romansy o Side v perevodakh russkikh pisatelei. Ispanskii narodnyi...
St Petersburg, Glazunov, 1897.
First edition of a prose translation into Russian of Cantar de mio Cid, preceded only by a ‘short retelling’ of 1864 by Fyodor Buslaev.
£1250
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FEDIN, Konstantin Aleksandrovich.
Sad [The Orchard].
Petrograd, 1922.
Rare first edition of Konstantin Fedin’s first book, a short story which was awarded first prize by the House of Writers.
£1100
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FEDIN, Konstantin Aleksandrovich.
Goroda i gody. Roman [Cities and years. A novel].
Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel’stvo, 1924.
First edition of Fedin’s autobiographical first novel, Cities and Years, an intense exploration of war and its aftermath, and the role of the intelligentsia in the inevitable revolution looming over society. The cities of the title are Berlin and Moscow, and the years those of the First World War and...
£1200
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FOIX, Josep Vicenç.
Obres poètiques, amb un pròleg de l’autor.
Barcelona, Edicions Nauta, 1964.
First edition of this collected anthology of Foix’s poems and prose pieces, no. 833 of 1100 numbered copies signed by the author, together with the first printing of Desa acquests llibres al calaix de baix.
£200
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[GARCÍA LORCA, Federico, et al.]
Los Cuatro Vientos.
Madrid, Febrero [–Junio], 1933.
The complete run of this short-lived Madrid literary review, from February to June of 1933.
£950
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Bodas de sangre. Tragedia en 3 actos y 7 cuadros… Estrenada en Buenos Aires por la eminente actriz Lola...
Buenos Aires, Teatro del Pueblo, November 1936.
An early edition of Lorca’s Blood Wedding, published, shortly after the poet’s death, in Buenos Aires, where the play had enormous success with Lola Membrives playing the role of the mother.
£300
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Poema del cante jondo.
Santiago de Chile, Editorial Veloz, [1937].
Third edition, published in Santiago de Chile, with an introduction by Pablo Neruda.
£150
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias & Ode à Walt Whitman. Traduits par Rolland-Simon.
[Paris], GLM, 1938.
Rare first edition in French of Lorca’s Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías: copy no. 2 of 20 printed on hollande pannekoek (first paper) of a total edition of 470.
£500
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GARCIA LORCA, Federico.
Cinq romances gitanes, texte espagnol et traduction par Guy Lévis-Mano.
[Paris], GLM, [1939].
First edition, one of 475 numbered copies, of translations into French by Guy Lévis-Mano of five poems from the Romancero gitano: ‘Saint Gabriel’, ‘La casada infiel’, ‘Romance sonámbulo’, ‘Romance de la Guardia Civil española’ and ‘Romance de la luna, luna’.
£100
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel, and Avellí ARTÍS-GENER, translator.
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Barcelona, Edhasa, 1970.
First edition of Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude in Catalan, translated by the journalist, translator, and writer Avellí Artís-Gener (1912–2000).
£150
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel.
‘El Olor de la Guayaba.’ Conversaciones con Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.
Bogotá, La Oveja Negra, 1982.
First edition, published simultaneously in Colombia, Spain and Mexico. A series of interviews with García Márquez in which he discusses his family, his friends, his enemies, his work, his views on politics, etc.
£150
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GIONO, Jean.
Colline.
Paris, Bernard Grasset, Les Cahiers Verts, 1929.
First edition of Giono’s first book, one of 170 numbered copies on vélin pur fil; it forms the first part of his successful ‘Pan trilogy’ with Un de Baumugnes (1929) and Regain (1930).
£450
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
[Cover title:] Byvshie liudi [Former people, translated...
St Petersburg, “Znanie”, 1906.
First edition in book form, very rare, of Gorky’s powerful, darkly comic fable.
£1500
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Zhaloby [Complaints].
N.p., Rabochee Knigoizdatel’stvo, 1916.
An ephemeral publication of a short story by Gorky, first published in four parts in Berlin, 1910-1911.
£200
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
V stepi. – Druzhki [On the Steppes. – The friends].
Moscow, “Rodnaia rech’”, 1916
An ephemeral edition of two early short stories by Gorky.
£200
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
V Amerike. Ocherki [In America. Sketches].
Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow Verlag, [1918].
Second edition (first 1906): Gorky’s impressions of America after his visit there in 1906 to collect funds for the Party.
£300
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GOR’KII, Maxim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Katalog izdatel’stva “Vsemirnaia Literatura” pri narodnom...
St Petersburg, “Vsemirnaia Literatura”, 1919.
A catalogue marking the launch of a series of popular editions of the classics of world literature by the publishing house ‘Vsemirnaia Literatura’ (‘World Literature’), established by Gorky in 1919.
£650
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[GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV], and Nikolai Stepanovich GUMILEV.]
Ballady o Robin Gude...
St Petersburg, “Vsemirnaia Literatura”, 1919.
First edition, very rare, of a collection of translations of twelve popular songs featuring Robin Hood, published in the early Soviet series Vsemirnaia Literaura (‘Worldwide Literature’), edited by Gumilev and with a ten-page introduction by Gorky.
£900
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Delo Artamonovykh [The Artamonov business].
Berlin, “Kniga”, 1925.
First edition. ‘[Gorky’s] best novel, The Artamonov Business (1925), follows the Artamonovs through three generations, from the uneducated grandfather, a strong and enterprising, lusty patriarch who starts a small factory and builds it into a major industrial plant, to a grandson, an intellectual...
£450
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Starik. P’esa [The old man. A play].
Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow, [1921].
First edition, written 1915, but not premiered until New Year’s Day 1919.
£250