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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, 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
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[LUNACHARSKII, Anatolii Vasilievich, and Sergei Mitrofanovich GORODETSKII, editors.]
Styk. Pervyi sbornik stikhov Moskovskogo Tsekha...
Moscow, Moscow Guild of Poets, 1925.
First edition of an anthology edited by Lunacharsky and Gorodetsky, including poems by Pavel Antokolsky, Bryusov, Bely, Pasternak, Aleksandr Shiryaevet, Mikhail Zenkevich, and others. Pasternak’s contribution, ‘Spektorskii’, was first published complete in book form in 1931.
£250
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GORODETSKII, Sergei Mitrofanovich.
Iva. Piataia kniga stikhov [Willow. A fifth book of verse].
St Petersburg, ‘Shipovnik’, 1913.
First edition. Well received by the critics, this, the fifth collection from the co-founder of the Poets’ Guild and Acmeist movement, includes poems about the life of religious wanderers, pilgrims and the world of monasteries, as well as several children’s stories. Of his friend and collaborator,...
£200
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GRASS, Günter.
Gleisdreieck.
Darmstadt, Luchterhand, 1960.
Rare first edition of this volume of poems with Grass’s own drawings.
£100
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GRASS, Günter.
Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen des Autors.
Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 1965.
First edition.
£75
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GRASS, Günter.
The Danzig Trilogy [The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years].
New York, Pantheon & Harcourt Brace & World, 1962-65.
First US editions, all translated by Ralph Manheim, and first published in the original German in 1959, 1961 and 1963.
£500
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GRASS, Günter.
Selected Poems … With translations from the German by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton.
New York, Harcourt Brace & World Inc., 1966.
First US edition, with the original German on facing pages, of poems originally appearing in Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (1956) and Gleisdreieck (1960).
£50
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GRIGOROVICH, Dmitrii Vasil’evich.
Povesti i razskazy … Chast’ pervaia [– shestaia] [Stories and tales. Part I [– VI]].
Moscow, E. Barfknekht, 1858, & V. Grachev, 1859.
First collected edition of Grigorovich’s fiction, including the important stories Derevnia (The Village, 1846), Anton Goremyka (1847), Rybaki (The Fishermen, 1853) and Shkola gostepriimstva (The School of Hospitality, 1855).
£2000
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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.
Shater. Stikhi [The tent. Verses].
Revel [i.e. Tallinn], ‘Bibliofil’, [1921].
First illustrated edition. ‘The publishing house claims that this edition was made from the manuscript handed over by Gumilev in June 1921, the year he was arrested and executed. It contains more material than the [first edition published the same year]’ (Kilgour 427, note).
£250
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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 first published volume of translation, and Gautier’s first appearance in Russian. This is the only contemporary edition; it first received a reprint (in a bilingual edition) some seventy-five years later.
£850
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[GOURAUD, Stéphane, known as:] GURO, Stepan Andreevich, chevalier de.
Rech’ o deistvii prosveshcheniia na sostoianie...
St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1826.
First edition of an early speech on the importance of higher education, delivered by the rector of the recently founded University of St Petersburg in his native French (and in a somewhat florid style, to judge from the Russian translation by Nikita Butyrsky, a fellow academic and translator of...
£400
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HAMSUN, Knut.
Ny Jord. Roman.
Copenhagen, P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1893.
First edition of Shallow Soil, an early novel by the Norwegian nobel prize-winning author. Hamsun himself described the novel as being ‘about Norwegian youth’, ‘full of symbolism, but so little Ibsenish, I hope, that it can be understood.’
£200
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HAMSUN, Knut.
Munken Vendt.
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1902.
First edition of the verse drama Friar Vendt.
£300
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HARINGER, Jakob.
Die Einsiedelei. Ein Stundenblatt. Nr. VIII-XV [Poems].
Amsterdam, Christof Brundel Verlag, [1930].
First edition, rare, of a collection of several short pieces by the Expressionist poet Jakob Haringer. It includes: ‘Chinesische Strofen’, ‘Unbekannter Dichter/ Werke für einen Freund’, ‘Werke aus dem ägyptischen’, ‘Lieder von den Salomo-Inseln’, ‘Werke nach Ronsard’ and ‘Werke...
£250