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AKHMATOVA, Anna Andreevna, translator.
Golosa poetov. Stikhi zarubezhnykh poetov v perevode Anny Akhmatovoi [Poets’...
Moscow, “Progress”, 1965.
First edition: translations by Akhmatova of a selection of pieces by Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian, Norwegian, and Indian poets.
£450
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[VOLYNSKII A. pseud. [Akim Lvovich FLEKSER.]
Parfenon. Sbornik Pervyi [Parthenon. First collection (All published)].
St Petersburg “Parfenon” 1922.
The first and only issue of a literary journal edited by A. Volynsky (1863–1926).
£250
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ALEKSANDROVA, Zinaida and Dmitry GORLOV.
Мишкины соседи [Little Bear’s neighbours].
Moscow, VLKSM Izdatelstvo Detskoi Literaturi, 1936.
First edition. A very nice copy of this collection of verses for young children, composed by one of the most prolific Soviet children’s poets, and illustrated by one of the most prolific of Soviet children’s artists. The tales tell of the lives of a selection of farm and wild animals, including...
£350
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ANDREEV, Leonid Nikolaevich.
Tsar Golod. Predstavlenie v piati kartinakh s prologom [King Hunger. A play in five scenes with...
[St Petersburg,] ‘Shipovnik’, 1908.
First edition of this play by one of the most popular writers in Russia during the first decade of the twentieth century: Andreev’s fame ‘was almost on a par with that of Chekhov and Gorky. The fact remains that his talent and topical themes, his literary techniques combining tradition and...
£800
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APUKHTIN, Aleksei Nikolaevich.
Stikhotvoreniia [Poems].
St Petersburg, F.S. Sushchinsky, 1886.
First edition of Apukhtin’s first collection of poems, including works set to music by, among others, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
£750
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AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.
Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry, comprising ‘Vingt-six janvier 1836’ by Azaïs,...
Béziers, c. 1836?
An attractive presentation volume, with poems by Azaïs (1805-1888) and Labor (1813-1900), and fine vignette sketches. Azaïs, later author of Les Troubadours de Béziers (1869) was a member of the Félibrige, the literary organization founded by Frédéric Mistral to promote Occitan language...
£1750
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BABEL’, Isaak Emmanuilovich.
Stat’i i materialy [Articles and materials].
Leningrad, “Academia”, 1928.
First edition, from the ‘Academia’ series ‘Masters of Contemporary Literature’, including an autobiographical sketch by Babel, and three biographical or critical essays by Nikolai Stepanov, P.I. Novitsky and G.A. Gukovsky, plus a list of Babel’s works. Other writers in the series included Zoshchenko,...
£250
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, and Konstantin Dmitrievich BALMONT, translator.
Sochineniia Shelli... Vypusk 7-i, Chenchi,...
Moscow, Mamontov, 1899.
First edition of Balmont’s translation of Shelley’s The Cenci, volume 7 of his verse translation of the complete works of Shelley into Russian.
£900
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BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievich, translator. CALDERÓN, Pedro.
[Half-title:] Sochineniia Kal’derona perevod s ispanskago [The...
[Moscow, M. and S. Sabashnikov, 1900-1902-1912].
First edition of all three volumes of Balmont’s translations from Calderon, comprising: El purgatorio de San Patricia (volume I); La vida es sueño, La devoción de la cruz, El príncipe constante and Amar despues de la muerte (volume II); and El médico de su...
£1800
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BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievich.
Iz Mirovoi Poezii [From the world’s poetry].
[Berlin], “Slovo”, 1921.
First edition: Bal’mont’s translations into Russian of a selection of poems by Rustaveli, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Poe, Rossetti, Whitman, Tennyson, Goethe, Heine, Leopardi, Baudelaire, and others.
£50
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (translator). BARATASHVILI, Nikoloz.
Stikhotvoreniia v perevode Borisa Pasternaka [Poems in...
Moscow, “Pravda”, 1946.
First edition, very rare. Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817–1845) is ‘the greatest of the Georgian Romantic poets … [and] one of the first Georgians to fire a modern nationalism with European Romanticism … He died of malaria, unmourned and unpublished. His influence was long delayed, until...
£1100
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[BAUDELAIRE, Charles.]
Hommage à C. F. Denecourt. Fontainebleau. Paysages – Légendes – Souvenirs – Fantaisies.
Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette & Co., 1855.
First edition of this anthology compiled by Fernand Desnoyers and Auguste Luchet, published in honour of the self-appointed keeper of the forest of Fontainebleau, Claude-François Denecourt. It includes texts by Asselineau, Banville, Baudelaire, Béranger, Brizeux, Champfleury, Dupont, Gautier, Hugo,...
£750
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BELISHEVA, S. P., translator.
‘An die Fantasie, aus dem russischen.’ Manuscript on paper of an apparently unrecorded poem in...
Germany, c. 1830
A contemporary manuscript of an early 19th century Russian poem, translated into German, and signed by the, possibly pseudonymous, translator ‘Fräulein S. P. Belischef’. We have been unable to identify the original poem, in praise of poetic imagination and the heights it can attain, from which the...
£1750
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Korolevna i rytsari. Skazki [The king’s daughter and the knights....
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.
First edition. The majority of this collection of poems was written between 1909 and 1915, and can be seen, according to Bely, as ‘a transition from the gloomy despair of The Urn [1909] to the consciousness of The Star [not published until 1922]; awakening from the unconsciousness of...
£550
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Stikhi o Rossii [Poems about Russia].
Berlin, “Epokha”, 1922.
First edition of these poems by Bely, written between 1904 and 1918.
£300
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Posle razluki. Berlinskii pesennik [After the parting. A Berlin book...
St Petersburg & Berlin, “Epokha”, [1922].
First edition. Published the same year as Glossalolia, Bely’s ‘theory of the origin of the universe based on sound’, this collection is another illustration of the poet’s continued acoustic interests.
£350
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Tragediia tvorchestva. Dostoevskii i Tolstoi [The Tragedy of Creation....
[Moscow,] “Musaget”, [1911].
First edition of Bely’s important essay on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
£750
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [i.e. Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Zapiski chudaka. Tom pervyi [– vtoroi] [Notes of an eccentric....
Moscow and Berlin, “Helikon”, 1922.
First edition of Bely’s Notes of an eccentric, a thinly veiled autobiographical memoir or ‘diary in story form’.
£550
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BERGAMÍN, José.
El Arte de birlibirloque (Entendimiento del toreo).
[Madrid], Editorial Plutarco, 1930.
First edition, no. 393 of an unspecified limited printing on thick paper. A collection of aphorisms on the subject of bull fighting, by one of the best Spanish essayists of the twentieth century.
£350
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BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.
Stikhi o Rossii [Poems about Russia].
[St Petersburg], “Otechestvo”, 1915.
First edition of a rare volume of poems, collected and published as a separate book by the patriotic journal Otechestvo.
£400