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PISEMSKII, Aleksei Feofilaktovich.
Povesti i razskazy … v trekh chastiakh [Stories and tales … in three parts] …
Moscow, Stepanova, 1853.
Very rare first collected edition of the works of Pisemsky, including the first appearance in book form of many of his acclaimed early stories (Tiufiak (The Muff, translated into English as The Simpleton), Pitershchik (The Petersburger), Mr Batmanov, Brak...
£4800
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PISEMSKII, Aleksei Feofilaktovich.
Ocherki iz krest’ianskago byta [Sketches from Peasant Life].
St Petersburg, [A. Dmitriev,] 1856.
First edition: ‘one of Pisemsky’s most universally acclaimed books’ (Moser, p. 54) and the one which cemented his reputation as ‘a chronicler of the life of the common people’ (Terras).
£3000
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich. DUPONT, H. (translator).
Oeuvres choisies... traduites pour la première fois en français... Tome...
St Petersburg, chez Fd. Bellizard et Cie; Paris, Au comptoir des Imprimeurs-unis, 1847.
First collected edition of Pushkin in French, preceded in French translation only by some individual poems and stories, and a translation of The Queen of Spades in 1843. This is one of the earliest major collections of Pushkin to appear outside Russia.
£2500
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Sochineniia A. S. Pushkina. Tom pervyi [- shestoi + Prilozheniia]… Izdanie Ia. A. Isakova [The...
St Petersburg, Eduard Prats, 1859-60.
Third collected edition of the works of Pushkin, complete with the supplement volume compiled by Grigorii Gennadi; this is the first edition to be edited by Isakov. Very rare.
£8000
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Bumagi … Vypusk pervyi [all published] [Papers … First Part].
Moscow, University Press (M. Katkov), 1881.
First edition of Pushkin’s collected papers, edited by P.I. Bartenev, the first (and at that time only) person allowed access to them.
£1200
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Al’bom Pushkinskoi Iubileinoi Vystavki v Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v S. Peterburg, Mai 1899...
Moscow, K.A. Fisher, 1899.
The catalogue of an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Pushkin’s birth, held at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.
£800
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[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.]
Iubileinyi Al’bom v pamiat’ stoletiia so dnia rozhdeniia poeta 1799–1899 [A Jubilee Album...
St Petersburg, A.F. Marx, 1899.
First edition of an album in celebration of Pushkin, published as a supplement in the literary magazine Niva.
£1500
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Můj rodokmen [My genealogy].
[Prague, Průmyslová tiskárna, 1937.]
First edition, privately printed, of this Czech translation of Pushkin’s Moia rodoslovnaia (‘My genealogy’, 1830), the great Russian poet’s defence of his ancestry against some recent racial slurs. The fine illustrations are by Karel Svolinský (1896–1986), who is best known...
£250
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RAFALOVICH, Sergei L’vovich.
Avgust. Stikhotvoreniia [August. Poems].
Berlin, L.D. Frenkel, 1924.
First edition: a rare collection from the prolific if little-known poet and theatre critic, including a piece on the death of Blok.
£100
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REYES, Alfonso.
Los Siete sobre Deva. Sueño de una tarde de Agosto.
Mexico City, [Ediciones Tezontle, 1942].
First edition of this prose work by Alfonso Reyes (in Borges’s opinion, ‘the best prose-writer in the Spanish language of any period’), written 1923-29. Inscribed by Reyes on front endpaper to fellow poet and writer Pedro Salinas (1891-1951): ‘“En busca de Pedro Salinas”, y siempre a su lado,...
£1500
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Topologie d’une cité fantôme.
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1976.
First edition: a kind of intellectual detective story in which the reader becomes a collaborator in the solution of a crime as much his own creation as it is the author’s.
£250
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Un Régicide.
[Paris], Les Éditions de Minuit, [1978].
First edition, one of 87 copies on Alfa mousse (first paper).
£300
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Souvenirs du Triangle d’Or.
[Paris], Les Éditions de Minuit, [1978].
First edition, one of 87 copies on Alfa mousse (first paper).
£350
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ROMANOV, Panteleimon Sergeevich.
Domovoi [The house-sprite].
Moscow & Leningrad, “Zemlia i Fabrika”, [1926].
First edition, published in the ‘Worker-Peasant Library’ series, containing four short stories: Domovoi (‘The house-sprite’), Opis’ (‘The list’), Obshchestvennye raboty (‘Social work’, a fragment from Rus’), and Druzhnyi narod (‘A friendly people’).
£350
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ROZENGEIM, Mikhail Pavlovich.
Stikhotvoreniia [Poems] …
St Petersburg, Artillery Department Press, 1858.
First edition of Rozengeim’s first book, very rare, a collection of seventy-six poems of patriotic martial mood.
£2000
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[RUSSIAN POETRY.]
Izbrannye stikhi russkikh poetov. Seriia sbornikov po temam. Rossiia [Selections of verse by Russian poets....
[St Petersburg, Stasiulevich,] 1914.
First edition of a patriotic anthology of poems on the theme of ‘Russia’, organised chronologically from Odoevsky to Kliuev, including contributions from Ehrenburg, Bal’mont, Blok, Lermontov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.
£250
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[PORCELAIN.] KUKHNOV, A.F.
Recueil de marques de fabriques de porcelaine Russes.
[Paris, Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1927.]
Rare first and only edition of Kukhnov’s descriptive catalogue of eminent Russian porcelain factories, comprising brief histories of the factories accompanied by reproductions of their various factory marks.
£600
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SALINAS, Pedro.
El Contemplado. Tema con variaciones.
Mexico, Nueva Fioresta en la Editorial Stylo, 1946.
First edition: a set of fifteen poems written in Puerto Rico between 1943 and 1945, in which the poet addresses the sea he is watching.
£350
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SALINAS, Pedro.
El defensor.
Bogotá, Universidad Nacional, 1948.
First edition of this important collection of essays by one of the outstanding members of the Generación del 27. Salinas presents a series of five essays in defence of different aspects of language.
£550
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SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN, Mikhail Yevgrafovich.
Blagonamerennyia rechi. Tom I [– II] [Well-meaning speeches. Volume I [–II]].
St Petersburg, A.A. Kraevsky, 1876.
First edition of these social and political satires by the greatest satirist of nineteenth-century Russia. The title is ambiguous – the word ‘well-meaning’ was widely used by the administration to mean ‘loyal’, i.e. ‘politically reliable’.
£1800