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KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Komedii [Comedies].
St Petersburg, “Ory”, 1908.
First edition of one of Kuzmin’s earliest publications, a collection of three comedies on historical, pseudo-religious themes: ‘O Evdokii iz Geliopolia’ (On Eudoxia of Heliopolis), ‘O Aleksee cheloveke Bozh’em’ (On Alexis the man of God), and ‘O Martiniane’ (On...
£900
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KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Aleksandriiskiia pesni [Alexandrian songs].
St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].
First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian Songs, originally published as part of his first collection, Nets, in 1908.
£400
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KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Lesok. Liricheskaia poema dlia muzyki s ob”iasnitel’noi prozoi v trekh chastiakh [The Grove....
[Petrograd, “Neopalimaia kupina”, 1922].
First edition, copy no. 1 of a numbered edition of 500 copies.
£750
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LABORDE, Ernest.
Vieilles maisons boutiques & paysages de Paris. Eaux fortes originales de Ernest Laborde. Presentées par Gustave...
Paris, Jules Meynial, 1918 [1919].
First edition, very rare: two series of twenty etchings each on the most picturesque houses and shops in Paris, produced between 1911 and 1918 by Ernest Laborde (1870–1935).
£1950
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LAGERLÖF, Selma.
Bannlyst. En berättelse.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1918].
First edition: Lagerlöf’s pacifist novel, The Outcast, published towards the end of 1918, in which she argues for a re-examination of the state of modern Western society.
£100
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LANGE, Norah.
45 Días y 30 marineros. Novela.
Buenos Aires, Editorial Tor (Colección Cometa), 1933.
First edition: Norah Lange’s second novel, which follows a 20-year old girl, Ingrid, the only woman on the ship, on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Oslo.
£100
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LANGE, Norah.
Antes que mueran.
Buenos Aires, Editoial Losada, [1944].
First edition, a lyrical novel in which Lange returns to the theme of childhood and lost days.
£80
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LEONOV, Leonid Maksimovich.
Petushikhinskii prolom [The Break-up of Petushikha].
Moscow, M. & S. Shabashnikov, 1923.
First edition of an early short story about the impact of the Revolution on the clergy and the peasantry.
£300
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LEONOV, Leonid Maksimovich.
Tuatamur.
Moscow, M. & S. Sabashnikov, 1924.
First edition: one of Leonov’s early stories, the tragic, sometimes savage tale of a Tartar khan who shares in the victory over the Russians at Kalka (1224, the first invasion of Russia by the Mongol hordes), only to lose his beloved Ytmar, the doomed warrior daughter of Genghiz Khan. The narrative...
£450
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LESKOV, Nikolai Semenovich.
Soboriane. Stargorodskaia khronika [Cathedral Folk. Chronicle of Stargorod]. In: Russkii Vestnik,...
Moscow, University Press, March - July 1872.
The first appearance in print of all five parts of Leskov’s best known novel (or ‘chronicle’ as he preferred to call it), Cathedral Folk, published in instalments, between March and July 1872, in Russkii Vestnik.
£2500
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LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim, and Viktor KRYLOV (translator).
Natan mudryi. Dramaticheskoe stikhotvorenie … perevod...
St Petersburg, Stasiulevich, 1875.
First edition in Russian of Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, very rare.
£2000
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[LIDIN, Vladimir Germanovich, editor.]
Literaturnaia Rossiia. Sbornik sovremennoi russkoi prozy pod redaktsiei Vl. Lidina...
Moscow, “Novye vekhi”, 1924.
First edition of an avant-garde collection of short stories and excerpts from novels, with autobiographical sketches and bibliographies by each of the twenty-eight contributors, all written especially for this collection.
£1500
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LIVSHITS, Benedikt Konstantinovich.
Krotonskii polden’ [High Noon at Kroton].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1928.
First collected edition. Livshits’ fifth and final book of verse, after which he turned increasingly to translation work.
£600
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LUNACHARKSII, Anatolii Vaslievich.
Piat’ farsov dlia liubitelei [Five farces for amateurs].
St Petersburg, “Shipovnik”, 1907.
Very rare first edition of five early plays, written for amateur performance, but rarely staged: ‘Sverkhchelovek’ (Superman), ‘Esche skvernyi anekdot’ (Another nasty anecdote), ‘Beglyi politik’ (The fugitive politician), ‘Bomba’ (Bomb), and ‘Obshchestvo maloi skorosti’ (Low-speed...
£500
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MACHADO, Antonio.
Juan de Mairena. Sentencias, donaires, apuntes y recuerdos de un profesor apócrifo.
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1936.
First edition of this philosophical and poetic miscellany attributed to an apocryphal professor Juan de Mairena.
£650
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Rubezh. Izbrannye stikhi [Threshold. Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.
[Selected poems]. Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1933.
First edition in Russian of the first book by the Soviet Yiddish poet and novelist Peretz Markish (1895-1952), a collection of poems, Shveln (Threshold, Kiev, 1919) which established his reputation as one of the most important Yiddish poets of his time.
£1800
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Brat’ia [Brothers].
Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1935.
First edition in Russian of Markish’s epic poem Brider (Brothers, Kiev, 1929), an optimistic work glorifying the Communist regime.
£1200
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Stikhotvoreniia i poemy. Perevod s evreiskogo [Poems, long and short. Translated from the Hebrew].
Moscow, Ogiz, 1945.
First edition, a collection of late poems by the pre-eminent Soviet Yiddish poet and novelist Peretz Markish; the translations are by several hands.
£300
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MARSHAK, Samuil Iakovlevich, and Mikhail TSEKHANOVSKII.
Почта [Post].
Leningrad, ‘Pechatnyi Dvor’, 1931.
Sixth edition (first published by Raduga in 1927) of an attractive Marshak children’s story, with illustrations by the artist and animator Tsekhanovsky.
£750
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MAURIAC, François.
Le Noeud de Vipères. Roman.
[Paris], Bernard Grasset, [1932].
First edition, one of 112 numbered copies on vélin pur fil. Le Noeud de Vipères is one of the major French Catholic novels of the 20th century: a marital drama, depicting an old lawyer's rancour toward his family, his passion for money, and his final conversion. ‘Written shortly after the resolution...
£550