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.
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SELVINSKII, Il’ia Lvovich.
Rekordy [Records].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1926.
First edition, of Ilya Selvinsky’s (1899–1968)...
£300
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SELVINSKII, Ilia Lvovich.
Ulialaevshchina: epopeia [The Ulialaev...
Moscow, Gosizdat “Khudozhestvennaia...
Fourth edition (first, 1927) of Sel’vinskii’s...
£100
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
O blazhenstve imushchago: poeziia Z.N....
Moscow, “Al’tsiona”, [1912].
First edition, a critical essay by Shaginian...
£350
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Puteshestvie v Veimar [Journey to Weimar].
Moscow & Petrograd, Gosizdat, 1923.
First edition of Shaginyan’s account...
£600
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Gëte [Goethe].
Moscow and Leningrad, Academy of Sciences...
First edition of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan’s...
£350
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SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.
Omylowé dle Shakespeara wzdělaná weselohra...
Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the...
First edition in Czech, very rare, of A...
£1100
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SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris Leonidovich PASTERNAK, translator.
Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Perevod s angliiskogo...
Moscow, Ogiz, 1945.
First edition of Pasternak’s translation....
£1000
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SHAKESPEARE, William, and Mihály VÖRÖSMARTY, translator.
Lear Király …
Pest, Landerer & Heckenastn, 1856.
First edition of the first translation...
£950
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, and Konstantin Dmitrievich BALMONT, translator.
Sochineniia Shelli... Vypusk 7-i, Chenchi,...
Moscow, Mamontov, 1899.
First edition of Balmont’s translation...
£900
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[SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich, translator and editor.] VILDRAC, Charles, and Georges DUHAMEL.
Teoriia svobodnogo stikha (zametki o poeticheskoi...
Moscow, “Imazhinisty”, 1920.
First edition of Shershenevich’s translation...
£150
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SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich.
Bystr’. Monologicheskaia drama [Rapids....
Moscow, “Pleiady”, 1916.
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies,...
£350
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SHIRMAN, Grigorii Iakovlevich.
...
Moscow, All-Russian Union of Poets, 1926.
First edition. A friend of Esenin and...
£250
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SHKAPSKAIA, Maria Mikhailovna.
Krov’-ruda [Blood-ore].
St Petersburg & Berlin, Epokha, 1922.
First edition of a collection of twenty-one...
£300
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Chas vechernii. Stikhi (1913–1917) [The...
Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s second...
£350
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Iav’. Poema [Reality. A poem].
Moscow & St Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.
First edition, written by the poet on a...
£400
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Mater Dolorosa.
St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s first...
£450
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SIDOROV, Gurii Aleksandrovich.
Vedro ognia [A bucket of fire].
Moscow, [All-Russian Union of Poets, 1920].
£150
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SKABICHEVSKII, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.
Ocherki istorii russkoi tsenzury (1700-1863...
St Petersburg, F. Pavlenkov, 1892.
First edition of the critic and journalist...
£500
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SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].
Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].
Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,]...
First edition, containing three cycles...
£550
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter...
Paris, YMCA, 1974.
First printed edition of a letter written...
£150