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SCHNITZLER, Jean-Henri.
Rostopchin i Kutuzov. Rossiia v 1812 godu. Perev. s predisloviem i primechaniiami A. El’nitskago [Rostopchin...
St. Petersburg, “Luch”, 1912
First edition in Russian of La Russie en 1812, Rostopchine et Koutousof (1863), a history of Russia during the Napoleonic wars. The generals Rostopchin and Kutuzov would appear as major characters in War and Peace (1865 7), and Schnitzler’s original appeared just as Tolstoy began work on his novel.
£300
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SELVINSKII, Il’ia Lvovich.
Rekordy [Records].
Moscow, “Uzel”, 1926.
First edition, of Ilya Selvinsky’s (1899–1968) first volume of verse, one of 700 copies.
£300
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SELVINSKII, Ilia Lvovich.
Ulialaevshchina: epopeia [The Ulialaev uprising: an epic].
Moscow, Gosizdat “Khudozhestvennaia literatura”, 1935.
Fourth edition (first, 1927) of Sel’vinskii’s first and most successful verse epic. Ulialaevshchina describes the fortunes of a kulak, Ulialaev, ‘who seized an estate from its pre-Revolutionary owner and was later defeated in an anarchist rebellion by the Red Army. Selvinsky’s depictions are...
£100
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
O blazhenstve imushchago: poeziia Z.N. Gippius [On the bliss of the propertied: the poetry of...
Moscow, “Al’tsiona”, [1912].
First edition, a critical essay by Shaginian published in the same year as Orientalia (advertised here), the collection of poetry that brought her fame.
£350
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Puteshestvie v Veimar [Journey to Weimar].
Moscow & Petrograd, Gosizdat, 1923.
First edition of Shaginyan’s account of a pilgrimage to Weimar, presented by the author ‘to the respected Vladimir Pavlovich Pirogov in dear memory’ (trans.).
£600
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SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Gëte [Goethe].
Moscow and Leningrad, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950.
First edition of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan’s (1888–1982) scholarly work on Goethe, which particularly examines Russian (and Soviet) appreciations. The great German writer was Shaginyan’s (or Shaginian’s) idol, as attested by Puteshestvie v Veimar (Journey to Weimar).
£350
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SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich.
Bystr’. Monologicheskaia drama [Rapids. A monological drama].
Moscow, “Pleiady”, 1916.
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies, of this verse drama from the radical young writer Shershenevich (1893–1942).
£350
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Chas vechernii. Stikhi (1913–1917) [The Evening hour. Poems (1913–1917)].
Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s second book of poems.
£350
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Iav’. Poema [Reality. A poem].
Moscow & St Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.
First edition, written by the poet on a visit to Romny in Ukraine.
£400
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Mater Dolorosa.
St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s first book of poems. ‘You have taken to a new and very wide road. No woman before you has spoken so truthfully and in so firm a voice of her significance as a woman’ (Gorky to Shkapskaya, January 1923).
£450
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SHKAPSKAIA, Maria Mikhailovna.
Krov’-ruda [Blood-ore].
St Petersburg & Berlin, Epokha, 1922.
First edition of a collection of twenty-one poems by Maria Shkapskaya (1881–1952).
£300
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‘ALEICHEM, Sholem’, pseud. [Solomon Naumovich RABINOVICH].
Sholom Aleikhem. Perevod s evreiskago S. Orlonskoi. Za sovetom....
St Petersburg, M.G. Kornfel’d, 1911.
Very rare first edition in Russian of three humorous stories by the ‘Jewish Mark Twain’, the Ukrainian-born author and playwright Sholem Aleichem, now probably best remembered through the musical based on his stories, Fiddler on the Roof.
£2000
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SKABICHEVSKII, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.
Ocherki istorii russkoi tsenzury (1700-1863 g.) [Sketches on the history of Russian censorship...
St Petersburg, F. Pavlenkov, 1892.
First edition of the critic and journalist Aleksandr Skabichevsky’s (1838-1910) essays on the history of Russian censorship, which had great success among the progressive reading public. Its popularity caused the censorship authorities to ban it from public libraries.
£500
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BALZAC, Honoré de, and Fedor Kuz’mich SOLOGBUB, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV], translator.
Ozornye skazki [Contes...
Petersburg, “Poliarnaia Zvezda”, 1922.
First edition, very rare, of Sologub’s translation of two of Balzac’s satirical Contes drolatiques, ‘The fair Imperia’ and ‘The fair Imperia married’.
£500
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SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].
Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].
Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,] 1922.
First edition, containing three cycles of verse by the leading Symbolist: ‘Vneshnii krug’ (Outer circle), ‘Put’’ (Path), and ‘Predel’ (Limit). This was one of the last collections of Sologub’s poems to appear before the state banned any further publication of his work in 1923....
£550
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter to the Soviet Leaders].
Paris, YMCA, 1974.
First printed edition of a letter written by Solzhenitsyn in September 1973 to a number of upper-echelon Soviet officials - his last attempt to address the powers of the Soviet Union before his deportation in February 1974.
£150
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].
Paris, YMCA, 1975.
First edition, comprising three speeches delivered by Solzhenitsyn to the American people in 1975.
£150
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SPRÜNGLI, Johann Jacob, editor.
Männergesänge von Freunden der Tonkunst gesammelt, dem Liederkranze zu Franfurt a. M. in Liebe...
Zürich, gedruckt bei J. J. Ulrich, im Verlage des Herausgebers, 1840.
First edition, the partbook issue. The work was also issued in score. Both are very rare, OCLC locating a copy of the 1st Bass part at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a set at the Swiss National Library. There are apparently no copies in Germany: KVK shows the British Library copy (in...
£950
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STRINDBERG, August.
Tschandala. Berättelse fran 1600–talet.
Stockholm, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags, 1897.
First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set in Skane thirty years after the Swedes took the province from the Danes in 1658.
£250
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STRINDBERG, Johan August.
Trefaldighetsnatten.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1909].
First separate edition of a collection of poems which was first published in the collection Fagervik och Skamsund in 1902.
£200