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SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].
Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].
Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,] 1922.
First edition, containing three cycles of verse by the leading Symbolist: ‘Vneshnii krug’ (Outer circle), ‘Put’’ (Path), and ‘Predel’ (Limit). This was one of the last collections of Sologub’s poems to appear before the state banned any further publication of his work in 1923....
£550
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter to the Soviet Leaders].
Paris, YMCA, 1974.
First printed edition of a letter written by Solzhenitsyn in September 1973 to a number of upper-echelon Soviet officials - his last attempt to address the powers of the Soviet Union before his deportation in February 1974.
£150
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].
Paris, YMCA, 1975.
First edition, comprising three speeches delivered by Solzhenitsyn to the American people in 1975.
£150
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SPRÜNGLI, Johann Jacob, editor.
Männergesänge von Freunden der Tonkunst gesammelt, dem Liederkranze zu Franfurt a. M. in Liebe...
Zürich, gedruckt bei J. J. Ulrich, im Verlage des Herausgebers, 1840.
First edition, the partbook issue. The work was also issued in score. Both are very rare, OCLC locating a copy of the 1st Bass part at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a set at the Swiss National Library. There are apparently no copies in Germany: KVK shows the British Library copy (in...
£950
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TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.
Kniaz’ Serebrianyi. Povest’ vremen Ioanna Groznago. S predisloviem kn. D. N. Tserteleva....
Moscow, V. G. Got’e [Gautier], 1892.
First edition thus, printed on papier vélin and signed by the publisher, one of a number of bibliophile editions of Russian classics brought out by Gautier in the 1890s. Copies were also printed on japon.
£1600
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Khoziain i rabotnik. Povest’ [Master and Man. A Story].
St Petersburg, V.S. Balashev and Co., 10 March 1895.
One of the earliest printings of one of Tolstoy’s greatest late short stories, revolving around a Damascene moment in the life of an avaricious landowner.
£3000
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[TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.] BIRIUKOV, Pavel Ivanovich (editor).
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi. Biografiia. Sostavil P. Biriukov...
Moscow, Pechkovsky, ‘Posrednik’, 1906[-8].
First edition, rare, of the first authorised biography of Tolstoy (then aged seventy-eight), by his friend, secretary and disciple Pavel Biriukov (1860–1931), drawing on much unpublished archival material and written in personal consultation with Tolstoy over a period of at least six years.
£1800
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
I. Pis’mo k Kitaitsu. (Oktabria 1906 g.) II. Kitaiskaia mudrost’. Mysli kitaiskikh myslitelei, sobrannyia...
Moscow, “Posrednika”, 1907.
First edition, very rare, of Tolstoy’s open letter to the Malaysian-Chinese man of letters Gu Hongming, who had sent several of his works to Tolstoy, including Papers from a Viceroy’s Yamen (1905).
£2250
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[TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.] ORLOV, Nikolai.
Russkie Muzhiki. Kartiny khudozhnika N. Orlova, s predisloviem Leva Nikolaevicha Tolstogo...
St Petersburg, R. Golik & A. Vilborg, 1909.
First and only edition of this album of nine black and white reproductions of folk-art paintings by the peasant artist Nikolai Orlov, prefaced by an 8-page introduction by Tolstoy. The realistic portrayal of Russian society, especially of the peasantry, was a cause beloved by Tolstoy, and is a key feature...
£1200
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Posmertnyia zapiski startsa Fedora Kuz’micha umershago 20-go ianvaria 1864 goda v Sibiri, bliz goroda...
St Petersburg, V. Vrublevskii, 1912.
First edition, very rare, of an unfinished story, begun in 1905, exploring the popular legend that Tsar Alexander I had staged his own death in 1825 and had gone into hiding as the hermit Fedor Kuz’mich.
£1750
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Posmertnyia khudozhestvennyia proizvedeniia… pod redaktsii V Chertkova. Tom I [-III] [Posthumous...
[Moscow], A.L. Tolstoy, [1912].
A reprint, in slightly smaller format than the first edition of 1911, of Tolstoy’s posthumous works, which included the first appearance of many important pieces: ‘Hadji Murad, as well as The Memoirs of a Madman and The Devil, was published only in 1911, in the collected edition...
£800
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TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.
Smert’ Ioanna Groznago, tragediia v piati deistviiakh [The Death of Ivan the Terrible,...
St Petersburg, Naval Ministry Press, 1866.
First edition: the first in the great trilogy of plays by the foremost Russian historical dramatist. It was translated into English verse, ‘with the author’s permission’, in 1869.
£2000
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TRETIAKOV, Sergei Mikhailovich.
Rychi, Kitai! Stikhi [Roar, China! Poems].
Moscow, “Ogonek”, 1926.
First edition, very rare. Tretyakov wrote these lyrics during an extended visit to China in 1924, during which he collected material for his subsequent work on contemporary China. The name of the title poem ('Rychi, Kitai!') was used again for Tretyakov’s famous avant-garde play of the same...
£350
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TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich.
Nov’. Roman [Virgin Soil. A Novel].
Moscow, 1878.
First edition printed in Russia of Turgenev’s novel about the Populists of the 1870s. It was first published in the journal Vestnik Evropy in 1877, followed shortly afterwards by an edition published in Leipzig.
£1500
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TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich.
Stikhotvoreniia [Poems].
St Petersburg, [V Tipografii Glazunova], 1885.
First edition: a collected volume of Turgenev’s poems omitted from the Complete collected works of 1883.
£1200
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VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.
O Repine [On Repin] …
Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.
First edition thus: three pieces written earlier in the year and published in journals on the work of Ilya Repin (1844–1930), often regarded as Russia’s national artist. At the end is an extract from a lecture (1885) by Landtsert on the painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and his Son’. Voloshin (1877–1932)...
£450
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VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV], translator.
Kandid, ili optimizm....
St Petersburg, “Panteon”, 1909.
First edition, very rare, of Sologub’s translation of Candide.
£500
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ZAMIATIN, Evgenii Ivanovich.
Nechestivye rasskazy [Impious Tales].
[Moscow,] ‘Krug’ writers’ cooperative, 1927.
First edition of a collection of eight short stories by the increasingly dissident Zamyatin, including ‘Iks’ [‘X’] and ‘Rasskaz o samom glavnom’ (‘Tale of the most essential thing’), ‘the single most important work of Zamjatin’s transitional period’ (Shane).
£200
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ZOSHCHENKO, Mikhail Mikhailovich.
Izbrannye rasskazy i povesti 1923-1956 [Collected stories and tales 1923-1956].
Leningrad, ‘Soviet Writer’, 1956.
First complete edition of Zoshchenko’s shorter prose fiction, including his stories for children; a presentation copy to his friend the dramatist, translator and poet Muza Konstantinovna Pavlova (1917-2006).
£450
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ZRITEL’
[The Observer] No. 24.
St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman, 1905.
A very rare number, confiscated by the authorities, of the very first of the satirical magazines to come out of the 1905 Revolution. 25 numbers were published, between 5 June and 11 December 1905, edited by Yu. K. Artsybyshev. Contributors include Fedor Sologub, and the artists Epifanov and Shestopalov,...
£750