Search results
-
KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Mantyk, okhotnik na l’vov. Povest’ [Mantyk, lion-hunter. A story].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, 1928.
First edition, an African safari adventure for younger readers, by the exiled ataman of the Don Cossacks.
£1200
-
KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Mantyk, okhotnik na l’vov. Povest’ [Mantyk, lion-hunter. A story].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, 1928.
First edition, an African safari adventure for younger readers, by the exiled ataman of the Don Cossacks.
£1200
-
KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
S Ermakom na Sibir! Povest’ [With Ermak to Siberia! A story].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, [1929].
First edition, an illustrated children’s story about the sixteenth-century Cossack leader Ermak Timofeevich, whose exploration of Siberia in the 1580s marked the beginning of Russia’s expansion into the interior.
£1000
-
KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Nenavist’. Roman [Hatred. A Novel].
Paris, E. Siial’skaia, [1934].
First edition, one of 1000 copies on normal paper from an edition of 1007. It was also translated into German and Italian.
£600
-
KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Domoi! (na l’gote). Roman [Homewards! (On leave). A novel].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, [1936].
First edition, one of 1000 copies on normal paper from an edition of 1002; a novel of soldiers on leave.
£600
-
KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich.
Zaumnyi iazyk u: Seifullinoi, Vs. Ivanova, Leonova, Babelia, I. Sel’vinskogo, A. Veselogo, i...
Moscow, Publishing house of the All-Russian Union of Poets, 1925.
First edition, a critical study of six poets by ‘the most effective theoretician of cubo-futurism and its most loyal and consistent advocate of transrational language … or the destruction of meaning in poetry … For Kruchonykh, transrational language also reflected the confusion and chaos...
£650
-
KUNDERA, Milan.
Smĕšné lásky. Tři melancholické anekdoty.
Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1963.
First edition of all three volumes of the trilogy which makes up Kundera’s early collection of short stories, Laughable Loves. ‘My writing took flight with the first story for Laughable Loves. This was my Opus 1. Everything I'd written prior to it can be considered prehistory’...
£500
-
KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Komedii [Comedies].
St Petersburg, “Ory”, 1908.
First edition of one of Kuzmin’s earliest publications, a collection of three comedies on historical, pseudo-religious themes: ‘O Evdokii iz Geliopolia’ (On Eudoxia of Heliopolis), ‘O Aleksee cheloveke Bozh’em’ (On Alexis the man of God), and ‘O Martiniane’ (On...
£900
-
KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Aleksandriiskiia pesni [Alexandrian songs].
St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].
First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian Songs, originally published as part of his first collection, Nets, in 1908.
£400
-
KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Lesok. Liricheskaia poema dlia muzyki s ob”iasnitel’noi prozoi v trekh chastiakh [The Grove....
[Petrograd, “Neopalimaia kupina”, 1922].
First edition, copy no. 1 of a numbered edition of 500 copies.
£750
-
LABORDE, Ernest.
Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de Paris. Eaux fortes originales de Ernest Laborde. Presentées par Gustave...
Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].
First edition, very rare: two series of twenty etchings each on the most picturesque houses and shops in Paris, produced between 1911 and 1918 by Ernest Laborde (1870–1935).
£1950
-
LAGERLÖF, Selma.
Bannlyst. En berättelse.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1918].
First edition: Lagerlöf’s pacifist novel, The Outcast, published towards the end of 1918, in which she argues for a re-examination of the state of modern Western society.
£100
-
LANGE, Norah.
45 Días y 30 marineros. Novela.
Buenos Aires, Editorial Tor (Colección Cometa), 1933.
First edition: Norah Lange’s second novel, which follows a 20-year old girl, Ingrid, the only woman on the ship, on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Oslo.
£100
-
LANGE, Norah.
Antes que mueran.
Buenos Aires, Editoial Losada, [1944].
First edition, a lyrical novel in which Lange returns to the theme of childhood and lost days.
£80
-
LEONOV, Leonid Maksimovich.
Petushikhinskii prolom [The Break-up of Petushikha].
Moscow, M. & S. Shabashnikov, 1923.
First edition of an early short story about the impact of the Revolution on the clergy and the peasantry.
£300
-
LEONOV, Leonid Maksimovich.
Tuatamur.
Moscow, M. & S. Sabashnikov, 1924.
First edition: one of Leonov’s early stories, the tragic, sometimes savage tale of a Tartar khan who shares in the victory over the Russians at Kalka (1224, the first invasion of Russia by the Mongol hordes), only to lose his beloved Ytmar, the doomed warrior daughter of Genghiz Khan. The narrative...
£450
-
LESKOV, Nikolai Semenovich.
Soboriane. Stargorodskaia khronika [Cathedral Folk. Chronicle of Stargorod]. In: Russkii Vestnik,...
Moscow, University Press, March - July 1872.
The first appearance in print of all five parts of Leskov’s best known novel (or ‘chronicle’ as he preferred to call it), Cathedral Folk, published in instalments, between March and July 1872, in Russkii Vestnik.
£2500
-
LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim, and Viktor KRYLOV (translator).
Natan mudryi. Dramaticheskoe stikhotvorenie … perevod...
St Petersburg, Stasiulevich, 1875.
First edition in Russian of Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, very rare.
£2000
-
[LIDIN, Vladimir Germanovich, editor.]
Literaturnaia Rossiia. Sbornik sovremennoi russkoi prozy pod redaktsiei Vl. Lidina...
Moscow, “Novye vekhi”, 1924.
First edition of an avant-garde collection of short stories and excerpts from novels, with autobiographical sketches and bibliographies by each of the twenty-eight contributors, all written especially for this collection.
£1500
-
LIVSHITS, Benedikt Konstantinovich.
Krotonskii polden’ [High Noon at Kroton].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1928.
First collected edition. Livshits’ fifth and final book of verse, after which he turned increasingly to translation work.
£600