Foreign Literature
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This department specialises in rare and important works of French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and South American literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Here you can find first editions and signed or presentation copies of authors as diverse as Akhmatova, Balzac, Borges, Camus, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Goldoni, Hugo, Kafka, Leopardi, Lorca, Manzoni, Pirandello, Pushkin, Schiller, Tolstoy, Zola, and many others. Among the important works which have passed through our hands are the original working manuscript of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, now in the Pushkin House in St Petersburg, the only known copy of the first edition of Brecht's first play, Baal (1920) with his working notes, and an extraordinary collection of Pushkin first editions.-
AZAÏS, Gabriel, and Charles LABOR.
Illustrated manuscript volume of poetry,...
Béziers, c. 1836?
An attractive presentation volume, with...
£1750
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[BAUDELAIRE, Charles.]
Hommage à C. F. Denecourt. Fontainebleau....
Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette & Co., 1855.
First edition of this anthology compiled...
£750
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BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Les Fleurs du mal [from Revue des...
[Paris, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1855.]
First appearance in print of any of...
£950
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BECQUE, Henry.
Les Corbeaux, pièce en quatre actes.
Paris, Tresse, [1882].
First and second editions of Becque’s...
£2000
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[BERINGTON, Simon, adapted by Jean-Baptiste DUPUY-DEMPORTES.]
Memoires de Gaudence de Luques, prisonnier...
Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus,...
Second edition of this much expanded...
£500
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[COLETTE.] KELLER, Fernand, and André LAUTIER.
Colette (Colette Willy), son oeuvre.
Paris, Éditions de La Nouvelle Revue...
First edition of this critical work...
£900
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[COLETTE.] ‘WILLY’ [pseud. Henri GAUTHIER-VILLARS].
...
Paris, Nilsson, Per Lamm, [1904].
First edition of these vignettes of...
£600
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DESENFANS, Noel Joseph.
Les deux Hermites, dédié a mylord Lyttelton...
A Londres; chez R. Davis … J Ridley...
First and only edition, uncommon, of an...
£650
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DUMAS, Alexandre.
Les trois mousquetaires.
Paris, Michel Lévy, 1846.
Rare early edition of The Three Musketeers,...
£950
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DUMAS, Alexandre.
Autograph letter, signed.
[Paris, not before 1859.]
A short note by the novelist and playwright...
£750
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DUMAS, Alexandre, père.
Maître Adam le Calabrais.
Paris, Dumont, 1840.
Rare first authorised edition of an...
£1200
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FRICKER, Bernard.
Autograph working manuscript of a collection...
Circa 1946-52.
An extraordinary, unique production,...
£6500
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias...
[Paris], GLM, 1938.
Rare first edition in French of Lorca’s...
£500
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Ode à Salvador Dalí. Texte espagnol &...
[Paris], GLM, [1938].
First separate edition of Lorca’s Ode...
£600
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GARCIA LORCA, Federico.
Cinq romances gitanes, texte espagnol et...
[Paris], GLM, [1939].
First edition, one of 475 numbered copies,...
£100
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GIONO, Jean.
Colline.
Paris, Bernard Grasset, Les Cahiers Verts,...
First edition of Giono’s first book;...
£450
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GIUSTI, Paolo Emilio.
Magie. Preface de Jean Royère.
Paris, Albert Messein, 1938.
First edition of a rare work of verse...
£350
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GOGOL’, Nikolai Vasil’evich, and Louis VIARDOT (translator).
Tarass Boulba… traduit du russe par Louis...
Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1853.
First separate appearance of Gogol’s...
£250
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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich, translator. GAUTIER, Théophile.
Emali i kamei [Émaux et camées].
[St Petersburg, M. V. Popov, 1914.]
First edition, very rare: Gumilev’s first...
£850
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[HERISSANT, Louis Théodore].
Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleurs...
Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.
First edition, rare, of what has a claim...
£650