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PAGLIARANI, Elio.
Inventario privato. Prefazione di Giacomo Zanga. Disegni di Alberto Casarotti.
[Milan], Veronelli, [1959].
First edition of the second published collection of poems by Elio Pagliarani (b. 1927), a member of the neo-avant-garde Gruppo 63. Pagliarani was the first of five poets to be anthologised by Alfredo Giuliani two years later in his important anthology I novissimi (1961), which in many ways can be seen...
£350
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich.
Dve knigi. Stikhi [Two Books. Poems].
Moscow-Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1927.
First collected edition of Pasternak’s two major early collections of verse, My Sister Life (1922) and Themes and Variations (1923).
£900
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich.
Na rannikh poezdakh [On early trains].
Moscow, “Sovetskii pisatel’”, 1943.
First edition of this collection of poems from the years 1936 to 1941.
£750
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich.
Zemnoi prostor [Expanses of Land].
Moscow, “Sovetskii pisatel’”, 1945.
First edition of Pasternak’s war poems.
£400
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich, translator.
Gruzinskie Poety [Georgian Poets].
Moscow, Sovestskii pisatel’, 1946.
First edition, comprising Pasternak’s translations of most of the surviving œuvre of Nik’oloz Baratashvili, first published in a very rare volume earlier in the year, and here supplemented by new translations of works by Ak’ak’i Tseretili, Vazha Pshavela (pseud. of Luka...
£750
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PILNIAK, Boris, pseud. [Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Povesti o chernom khlebe [Stories about black bread].
Moscow & St. Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.
First edition, comprising two short stories, ‘Volki’ (Wolves) and ‘Chernyi Khleb’ (Black bread), written in Kolomna in 1922-3.
£300
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PILNIAK, Boris, pseud. [Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Rasplesnutoe vremia. Rasskazy [Spilled time. Stories].
Moscow and Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1927.
First edition of a collection of short stories previously published only in periodicals (in 1925-7); this collection represents a shift in Pilniak’s style towards social realism – most of the stories are grouped under the general heading ‘Recurring tales’.
£350
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‘PILNIAK, Boris’, [pseud. Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Kamni i Korni [Rocks and roots].
Moscow, SovLit, 1934.
First edition in book form, a strange modernist travelogue in which Pilniak critically reworks his earlier Korni iaponskago solntsa (Roots of the Japanese Sun, 1927).
£300
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PILNIAK, Boris, pseud. [Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Shtoss v zhizn’ [Shtoss in life].
Berlin, Petropolis, [1929].
First edition, a collection of three stories.
£250
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‘PILNIAK, Boris’ [pseud. Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Kitaiskaia povest’ [A Chinese tale].
Moscow and Leningrad, Gosizdat, 1928.
First edition. A visit to the Far East in 1927 gave Pilniak material for a number of works, such as the present one, but controversy back in Russia grew over an earlier story, Povest’ nepogashennoi luny (The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon, 1926, which had strongly suggested that...
£350
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PISEMSKII, Aleksei Feofilaktovich.
Povesti i razskazy … v trekh chastiakh [Stories and tales … in three parts] …
Moscow, Stepanova, 1853.
Very rare first collected edition of the works of Pisemsky, including the first appearance in book form of many of his acclaimed early stories (Tiufiak (The Muff, translated into English as The Simpleton), Pitershchik (The Petersburger), Mr Batmanov, Brak...
£4800
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PISEMSKII, Aleksei Feofilaktovich.
Ocherki iz krest’ianskago byta [Sketches from Peasant Life].
St Petersburg, [A. Dmitriev,] 1856.
First edition: ‘one of Pisemsky’s most universally acclaimed books’ (Moser, p. 54) and the one which cemented his reputation as ‘a chronicler of the life of the common people’ (Terras).
£3000
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich. DUPONT, H. (translator).
Oeuvres choisies... traduites pour la première fois en français... Tome...
St Petersburg, chez Fd. Bellizard et Cie; Paris, Au comptoir des Imprimeurs-unis, 1847.
First collected edition of Pushkin in French, preceded in French translation only by some individual poems and stories, and a translation of The Queen of Spades in 1843. This is one of the earliest major collections of Pushkin to appear outside Russia.
£2500
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Sochineniia A. S. Pushkina. Tom pervyi [- shestoi + Prilozheniia]… Izdanie Ia. A. Isakova [The...
St Petersburg, Eduard Prats, 1859-60.
Third collected edition of the works of Pushkin, complete with the supplement volume compiled by Grigorii Gennadi; this is the first edition to be edited by Isakov. Very rare.
£8000
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Bumagi … Vypusk pervyi [all published] [Papers … First Part].
Moscow, University Press (M. Katkov), 1881.
First edition of Pushkin’s collected papers, edited by P.I. Bartenev, the first (and at that time only) person allowed access to them.
£1200
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Můj rodokmen [My genealogy].
[Prague, Průmyslová tiskárna, 1937.]
First edition, privately printed, of this Czech translation of Pushkin’s Moia rodoslovnaia (‘My genealogy’, 1830), the great Russian poet’s defence of his ancestry against some recent racial slurs. The fine illustrations are by Karel Svolinský (1896–1986), who is best known...
£250
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RAFALOVICH, Sergei L’vovich.
Avgust. Stikhotvoreniia [August. Poems].
Berlin, L.D. Frenkel, 1924.
First edition: a rare collection from the prolific if little-known poet and theatre critic, including a piece on the death of Blok.
£100
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Topologie d’une cité fantôme.
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1976.
First edition: a kind of intellectual detective story in which the reader becomes a collaborator in the solution of a crime as much his own creation as it is the author’s.
£250
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Un Régicide.
[Paris], Les Éditions de Minuit, [1978].
First edition, one of 87 copies on Alfa mousse (first paper).
£300
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Souvenirs du Triangle d’Or.
[Paris], Les Éditions de Minuit, [1978].
First edition, one of 87 copies on Alfa mousse (first paper).
£350