'DON-AMINADO', pseud. [Aminad Petrovich SHPOLIANSKII].

Neskuchnyi sad [Bare garden].

Paris, [Imprimerie E.I.R.P.,] 1935.

First edition, no. 38 of 150 copies, a poetical collection by the émigré poet, satirist and feuilletonist Aminad Shpolyansky.

£150

DVIGUBSKII, Ivan Alekseevich.

Opyt estestvennoi istorii vsekh zhivotnykh Rossiiskoi Imperii … S izobrazheniiami zhivotnykh. [Fly-title:]...

Moscow, University Press, 1831.

First edition, rare, one of a series of six works on the flora and fauna of the Russian Empire, published 1829–1833 under the same general title. The present volume covers molluscs, including cephalopods and gastropods.

£2000

DZHEMBULAT, E.

Krai ottsov [Land of the fathers].

Berlin, Parabola, [1934?].

First edition: a collection of poems.

£100

[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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel, and Avellí ARTÍS-GENER, translator.

...

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

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

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