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CHACHIKOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.
Chai-Khane.
Moscow, Moscow Guild of Poets, 1927.
First edition of a collection which highlights the poet’s interest in the Caucasus and other (non-Russian) parts of the Soviet Union, often employing foreign words in the poems.
£100
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AUX GALERIES LAFAYETTE.
[Original artwork]. Shop frontage designs.
Paris, c.1900.
Two striking facades of the Galeries Lafayette building, with the outlines of figures and carriages in relief as a street scene between the two looks. The first shows various sporting pursuits under a globe topped by a boat, the second dancers.
£750
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GLOBA, Andrei Pavlovich.
Korabli izdaleka [Ships from Afar].
Moscow & Petrograd, 1922.
First edition, an early collection by Globa (1888–1964), a popular Soviet writer whose poetry became well known as song lyrics.
£100
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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.
Farforovyi pavil’on. Kitaiskie Stikhi [The Porcelain Pavilion. Chinese poems].
Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.
Second edition (first 1918) of Gumilev’s paraphrases of Chinese and Indonesian lyrics, published the year after his death.
£100
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KOROLEVICH, Vladimir.
Sady Dofina [The Gardens of the Dauphin].
Moscow, [“Sinema”,] 1918.
First (and only?) edition. The poems are divided into two sections: ‘The Gardens of the Dauphin’ and ‘Sacred Spring’.
£150
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KUSIKOV, Aleksandr Borisovich, pseud. [Boris KUSIKIAN].
Koevangelieran [Ko-gospel-ran].
Moscow, “Imazhinisty”, 1920.
First edition. It is difficult to piece together a cohesive picture of Aleksandr Kusikov. His romanticized self-image was one of a wild mountain-dweller, and the Circassian trappings with which he surrounded himself (he was born in 1896 in Armavir to a large Armenian family called Kusikian) were clearly...
£100
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KUSIKOV, Aleksandr Borisovich, pseud. [Boris KUSIKIAN].
Al’-barrak. Poemy.
Berlin, “Skify”, 1922.
First edition, containing five poems on Islamic themes: ‘Al-Barrak’, ‘Al-Kadr’, ‘Julfikar’, ‘Iskandar Namah’ (1921), and ‘Ko-gospel-ran’.
£150
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LEBEDEV, V.P.
175 godovshchina Pervago Kadetskago korpusa. 17 fevralia 1907 g. [175th Anniversary of the First Corps of Cadets,...
[St Petersburg,] Press of the First Corps of Cadets, 1906.
Only edition of this collection of poems commemorating the 175th anniversary of the First Corps of Cadets, set up under Anna Ivanovna. Each of the ten ‘scenes in verse’ is narrated by a cadet, once for each Tsar under which the Corps has served.
£180
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[PIRANDELLO, Luigi.]
LO VECCHIO MUSTI, Manlio. Bibliografia di Pirandello.
Verona, Mondadori, 1937.
First edition of this authoritative bibliography of Pirandello, published just a year after his death. It includes a long introductory essay by Massimo Bontempelli.
£100
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LUCIAN, of Samosata.
Deorum dialogi... una cum interpretatione e regione latina nusquam antea impressi...
Strassbourg, Johannes Schott, 1515.
First edition edited and translated by the German humanist (and musician) Ottmar Nachtgall.
£2100
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MARSHALL, W.
Monsell Digby. A Novel, in three Volumes ...
London: Remington and Co. ... 1880.
First edition. Set in industrial and rural Lancashire against the background of the economic unrest of 1815, Monsell Digby follows the fortunes of a number of young men caught up in a murderous Luddite riot and its aftermath. Not in NUC and Supplement; UCLA and Texas only on OCLC. Wolff 4582.
£400
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MOROZOV, Nikolai Aleksandrovich.
Zvezdnyia pesni … [Celestial Songs].
Moscow, “Zadruga”, 1920.
First published in 1910, this second, enlarged edition is the ‘first complete edition’ of Morozov’s poetry, bringing the collection up-to-date (i.e. 1919). We offer volume I; a second appeared in 1921.
£120
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MOROZOV, Mikhail Mikhailovich.
O’tao. Drama v 2-kh deistviiakh [Drama in Two Acts].
Moscow, Sozvezdie, 1921.
First edition of a short play, set in Japan, by the Shakespeare scholar and translator M.M. Morozov (1897–1952). It was premiered on 15 June 1921.
£100
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MYRDAL, Gunnar.
Asian Drama. An inquiry into the poverty of nations.
New York, Pantheon, 1968.
Third printing, published in the same year as the first edition, of this important study which took ten years to complete.
£65
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PARADIN, Guillaume.
Gulielmi Paradini Anchemani Epigrammata ...
Lyons, Ant. Gryphius, 1581.
First and only edition of this French historian’s poetry including verses about or addressed to Ronsard, Pontus de Tyard, Claude Rouillet, and the Lyons printers Sébastien and Antoine Gryphe, and Jean de Tournes.
£950
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PETNIKOV, Grigorii Nikolaevich.
Kniga Marii zazhgi snega [The Book of ‘Mary Light the Snows’].
St Petersburg, “Liren’”, 1920.
First edition of the last of the poet-translator’s books to be published by Liren’, the publishing house he founded together with Aseev in 1914.
£100
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RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.
Korabli. Vtoraia kniga stikhov [Ships. A Second Book of Poems].
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1920.
First edition of the second collection of poems published by Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet well-known for her translations of Shakespeare.
£150
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RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.
Krylatyi gost’. Tret’ia kniga stikhov [The Winged Guest. A Third Book of Poems].
[St Petersburg,] “Petropolis”, 1922.
First edition: Radlova’s third collection of poems, written in 1920–22.
£120
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BERRYAT, Jean, et al., editors.
Receuil de Mémoires, ou Collection de Pièces Académiques, concernant la Médicine, l’Anatomie...
Dijon, Auxerre, Paris and Liège, F. Desventes, F. Fournier, et al., 1754-86.
The scarce first collected edition of these scientific papers from all over Europe (lacking only the last five volumes of the Partie Française), including among its contributors such famous names as Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Hevelius, De La Hire, Mariotte, Réaumur, La Condamine, Haller, Maupertuis, Boyle,...
£6000
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REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich.
Elektron.
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.
First edition, one of only a small number of poetic works by Remizov, ‘the most original, many-sided, and accomplished modernist prose writer…, a writer who at best would score a succès d’estime with a select public and never gained international recognition’ (Terras, History...
£250