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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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  1. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, and Konstantin Dmitrievich BALMONT, translator.

    Sochineniia Shelli... Vypusk 7-i, Chenchi,...

    Moscow, Mamontov, 1899.

    First edition of Balmont’s translation...

    £900

  2. [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

  3. SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich.

    Bystr’. Monologicheskaia drama [Rapids....

    Moscow, “Pleiady”, 1916.

    First edition, one of 500 numbered copies,...

    £350

  4. SHIRMAN, Grigorii Iakovlevich.

    ...

    Moscow, All-Russian Union of Poets, 1926.

    First edition. A friend of Esenin and...

    £250

  5. SHKAPSKAIA, Maria Mikhailovna.

    Krov’-ruda [Blood-ore].

    St Petersburg & Berlin, Epokha, 1922.

    First edition of a collection of twenty-one...

    £300

  6. SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

    Chas vechernii. Stikhi (1913–1917) [The...

    Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.

    First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s second...

    £350

  7. SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

    Iav’. Poema [Reality. A poem].

    Moscow & St Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.

    First edition, written by the poet on a...

    £400

  8. SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

    Mater Dolorosa.

    St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921.

    First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s first...

    £450

  9. SIDOROV, Gurii Aleksandrovich.

    Vedro ognia [A bucket of fire].

    Moscow, [All-Russian Union of Poets, 1920].

    £150

  10. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  11. SKABICHEVSKII, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.

    Ocherki istorii russkoi tsenzury (1700-1863...

    St Petersburg, F. Pavlenkov, 1892.

    First edition of the critic and journalist...

    £500

  12. SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].

    Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].

    Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,]...

    First edition, containing three cycles...

    £550

  13. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.

    Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter...

    Paris, YMCA, 1974.

    First printed edition of a letter written...

    £150

  14. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.

    Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].

    Paris, YMCA, 1975.

    First edition, comprising three speeches...

    £150

  15. STEPNIAK-KRAVCHINSKII, Sergius Mikhailovich.

    Подпольная Россiя ч. 1....

    Kiev, Otdel soldatskoi kooperatsii K....

    Extremely rare Civil War edition (first...

    £125

  16. [ST PETERSBURG SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.] HOLTEI, Karl Eduard von.

    Lenore. Vaterländisches Schauspiel mit...

    Berlin, Duncker and Humblot, 1829.

    First edition of one of Holtei’s best-known...

    £280

  17. STRINDBERG, August.

    Tschandala. Berättelse fran 1600–talet.

    Stockholm, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags, 1897.

    First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set...

    £250

  18. STRINDBERG, Johan August.

    Trefaldighetsnatten.

    Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1909].

    First separate edition of a collection...

    £200

  19. TAMAMSHEV, Aleksandr Artem’evich.

    Iz plamia i sveta [From the Flame and...

    Petrograd, [R. Golike & A. Vil’borg,] 1918.

    First edition. The title is taken from...

    £250

  20. TARSIS, Valerii Iakovlevich.

    Skazanie o sinei mukhe. Krasnoe i chernoe...

    Frankfurt am Main, Posev, 1963.

    First edition in Russian of Tarsis’ first...

    £90