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BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.
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Berlin, “Skify”, [1920].
First edition: a comic one-act dialogue variously between a Poet in love, a Fool, and a Courtier, written towards the end of Blok’s life.
£250
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BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.
O sovremennom sostoianii russkogo simvolizma [On the current state of Russian symbolism].
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1921.
First edition, a lecture read by Blok in April 1910 before the Society of Zealots of the Artistic Word, a discussion group formed by Gumilev, Blok and others in 1909.
£150
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BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.
Vozmezdie [Retribution].
St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1922.
First edition of Blok’s verse epic, on which he worked from 1910 until his death in 1921. Fragments were published during his lifetime, but the poem did not appear in its entirety until this posthumous edition.
£350
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[BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.] ASHUKIN, Nikolai Sergeevich.
Aleksandr Blok. Sinkhronisticheskie tablitsy zhizni i tvorchestva...
Moscow, “Novaia Moskva”, 1923.
First edition: a chronology of Blok’s life and a bibliography of his works, together with a list of secondary literature.
£300
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BOLAÑO, Roberto.
2666.
Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama, [2004].
First edition of the Chilean writer’s last novel, the major preoccupation of the last five years of his life.
£500
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.] BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich (editor).
Pis’ma Pushkina i k Pushkinu. Novye materialy,...
Moscow, Press of the Society for the Distribution of Useful Books, 1903.
First edition of this collection of Pushkin’s correspondence, edited by the Symbolist poet and critic Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873–1924); most of the contents are published from the original manuscripts.
£900
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.] BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich (editor).
Litseiskie stikhi Pushkina, po rukopisiam Moskovskago...
Moscow, “Skorpion”, 1907.
First edition – the symbolist poet Valery Briusov’s critical notes to volume I of the Academy edition of Pushkin’s Works (1899), which had included his Lycée poems 1812-17.
£350
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BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich.
Kratkii kurs nauki o stikhe ... Chast’ pervaia. Chastnaia metrika i ritmika russkago iazyka [A...
Moscow, “Al’tsiona”, 1919.
Very rare first edition, the only chapter to be published of Briusov’s ‘short course in the study of poetry’.
£120
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BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich.
Mig. Stikhi 1920–1921 g. [The Instant. Verses of 1920–1921].
Berlin and St Petersburg, Z.I. Grzhebin, 1922.
First edition. The post-Revolutionary period, spanning the years shortly before his death in 1924, was one of intense poetic activity for Bryusov. Of the work from this period, ‘several poems are devoted to recent history and current events – to the Revolution, the famine years, the death...
£200
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BRODSKII, Iosif Aleksandrovich.
Novye stansy k Avguste. Stikhi k M.B., 1962-1982 [New stanzas to Augusta. Poems to M.B., 1962-1982]....
[Soviet Union, c. 1983].
A rare samizdat of Joseph Brodsky’s poems, prepared in typescript for clandestine circulation in the Soviet Union at a time when his works could not be published or circulated there.
£3500
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail Afanas’evich.
Dni Turbinykh. Posledenie dni (A.S. Pushkin) [The Days of the Turbins. The Last Days (A.S....
Moscow, “Iskusstvo”, 1955.
First complete edition. The Days of the Turbins was Bulgakov’s most important play, and the one on which his lasting reputation as a dramatist depends.
£1500
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BULYGIN, Pavel Petrovich.
Iantari. Stikhotvoreniia [Ambers. Poems.]
Riga, M. Didkovska, [1937].
First and only edition of a posthumous collection by the émigré poet Pavel Petrovich Bulygin (1896-1936).
£300
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BUTURLIN, Petr Dmitrievich, Count.
Sonety. Posmertnoe izdanie [Sonnets. Posthumous edition].
[Kiev, Frontskevich,] 1895.
First edition: fifty-seven sonnets by the diplomat and poet Count Pyotr Buturlin (1859-1895).
£1200
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CABRERA INFANTE, Guillermo.
Tres tristes tigres.
Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1967.
First edition of Cabrera Infante’s first major novel: a key work in the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and a landmark in Cuban literature.
£750
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CARPENTIER, Alejo.
El Reino de este mundo (relato).
Lima, Talleres Gráficos Torres Aguirres, [1959].
Carpentier’s second novel, re-published on the occasion of the ‘1er Festival del Libro Cubano’ in 1959. First published in Mexico in 1949, the novel treats slave uprisings in eighteenth-century Haiti. The original introduction (reprinted here) contains the first mention of the concept of ‘magic...
£100
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CERNUDA, Luis.
Las Nubes (1937–1938).
Buenos Aires, Colección Rama de Oro, 1943.
First edition: a collection of poems written during Cernuda's stay in England, focusing on the tragic destiny of the Spaniard.
£1000
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CHTETS-DEKLAMATOR.
Chtets-deklamator. Khudozhestvennyi sbornik stikhotvorenii razskazov i monologov dlia chteniia v divertismentakh,...
[Kiev, I.I. Samonenko, 1906.]
Ivan and Fyodor Samonenko’s hugely popular series . There were at least 12 editions before the Revolution, highlighting Russia’s passion for performance at the time. The first volume, containing lyric poetry and humorous verse, had appeared in 1902. A second volume, in 1905, of which this...
£450
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DEVOTO, Daniel.
Libro de las fabulas. Ilustraciones de Atilio del Soldato.
[Buenos Aires], Gulab y Aldabahor, 1943.
First edition of this collection of Devoto’s poems, in the copy printed especially for him. This is one of five copies printed on Whatman paper, of a total edition of 555: ‘Ejemplar II, Especialmente impreso para Daniel Devoto’.
£400
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[BLIXEN, Karen.] DINESEN, Isak, pseud.
Babettes Gaestebud [Babette’s Feast].
Copenhagen, Forlaget Fremad, [1952].
First edition in book form of Babette’s Feast by Danish author Karen Blixen (1885–1962), author of Out of Africa.
£950
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'DON-AMINADO', pseud. [Aminad Petrovich SHPOLIANSKII].
Neskuchnyi sad [Bare garden].
Paris, [Imprimerie E.I.R.P.,] 1935.
First edition, no. 38 of 150 copies, a poetical collection by the émigré poet, satirist and feuilletonist Aminad Shpolyansky.
£150