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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
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ROMANOV, Panteleimon Sergeevich.
Domovoi [The house-sprite].
Moscow & Leningrad, “Zemlia i Fabrika”, [1926].
First edition, published in the ‘Worker-Peasant Library’ series, containing four short stories: Domovoi (‘The house-sprite’), Opis’ (‘The list’), Obshchestvennye raboty (‘Social work’, a fragment from Rus’), and Druzhnyi narod (‘A friendly people’).
£350
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ROZENGEIM, Mikhail Pavlovich.
Stikhotvoreniia [Poems] …
St Petersburg, Artillery Department Press, 1858.
First edition of Rozengeim’s first book, very rare, a collection of seventy-six poems of patriotic martial mood.
£2000
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[RUSSIAN POETRY.]
Izbrannye stikhi russkikh poetov. Seriia sbornikov po temam. Rossiia [Selections of verse by Russian poets....
[St Petersburg, Stasiulevich,] 1914.
First edition of a patriotic anthology of poems on the theme of ‘Russia’, organised chronologically from Odoevsky to Kliuev, including contributions from Ehrenburg, Bal’mont, Blok, Lermontov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.
£250
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[PORCELAIN.] KUKHNOV, A.F.
Recueil de marques de fabriques de porcelaine Russes.
[Paris, Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1927.]
Rare first and only edition of Kukhnov’s descriptive catalogue of eminent Russian porcelain factories, comprising brief histories of the factories accompanied by reproductions of their various factory marks.
£600
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SALINAS, Pedro.
El defensor.
Bogotá, Universidad Nacional, 1948.
First edition of this important collection of essays by one of the outstanding members of the Generación del 27. Salinas presents a series of five essays in defence of different aspects of language.
£550
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SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN, Mikhail Yevgrafovich.
Blagonamerennyia rechi. Tom I [– II] [Well-meaning speeches. Volume I [–II]].
St Petersburg, A.A. Kraevsky, 1876.
First edition of these social and political satires by the greatest satirist of nineteenth-century Russia. The title is ambiguous – the word ‘well-meaning’ was widely used by the administration to mean ‘loyal’, i.e. ‘politically reliable’.
£1800
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SCHNITZLER, Jean-Henri.
Rostopchin i Kutuzov. Rossiia v 1812 godu. Perev. s predisloviem i primechaniiami A. El’nitskago [Rostopchin...
St. Petersburg, “Luch”, 1912
First edition in Russian of La Russie en 1812, Rostopchine et Koutousof (1863), a history of Russia during the Napoleonic wars. The generals Rostopchin and Kutuzov would appear as major characters in War and Peace (1865 7), and Schnitzler’s original appeared just as Tolstoy began work on his novel.
£300
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SELVINSKII, Il’ia Lvovich.
Rekordy [Records].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1926.
First edition, of Ilya Selvinsky’s (1899–1968) first volume of verse, one of 700 copies.
£300
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SELVINSKII, Ilia Lvovich.
Ulialaevshchina: epopeia [The Ulialaev uprising: an epic].
Moscow, Gosizdat “Khudozhestvennaia literatura”, 1935.
Fourth edition (first, 1927) of Sel’vinskii’s first and most successful verse epic. Ulialaevshchina describes the fortunes of a kulak, Ulialaev, ‘who seized an estate from its pre-Revolutionary owner and was later defeated in an anarchist rebellion by the Red Army. Selvinsky’s depictions are...
£100
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
O blazhenstve imushchago: poeziia Z.N. Gippius [On the bliss of the propertied: the poetry of...
Moscow, “Al’tsiona”, [1912].
First edition, a critical essay by Shaginian published in the same year as Orientalia (advertised here), the collection of poetry that brought her fame.
£350
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Puteshestvie v Veimar [Journey to Weimar].
Moscow & Petrograd, Gosizdat, 1923.
First edition of Shaginyan’s account of a pilgrimage to Weimar, presented by the author ‘to the respected Vladimir Pavlovich Pirogov in dear memory’ (trans.).
£600
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Gëte [Goethe].
Moscow and Leningrad, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950.
First edition of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan’s (1888–1982) scholarly work on Goethe, which particularly examines Russian (and Soviet) appreciations. The great German writer was Shaginyan’s (or Shaginian’s) idol, as attested by Puteshestvie v Veimar (Journey to Weimar).
£350
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SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich.
Bystr’. Monologicheskaia drama [Rapids. A monological drama].
Moscow, “Pleiady”, 1916.
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies, of this verse drama from the radical young writer Shershenevich (1893–1942).
£350
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Chas vechernii. Stikhi (1913–1917) [The Evening hour. Poems (1913–1917)].
Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s second book of poems.
£350