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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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CELAN, Paul.
Von Schwelle zu Schwelle. Gedichte.
Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [1955].
First edition of Celan’s second collection of poems. Dedicated to his wife Gisèle, it is Celan’s first book to arise wholly from Paris.
£400
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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
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DVIGUBSKII, Ivan Alekseevich.
Opyt estestvennoi istorii vsekh zhivotnykh Rossiiskoi Imperii … S izobrazheniiami zhivotnykh. [Fly-title:]...
Moscow, University Press, 1831.
First edition, rare, one of a series of six works on the flora and fauna of the Russian Empire, published 1829–1833 under the same general title. The present volume covers molluscs, including cephalopods and gastropods.
£2000
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DZHEMBULAT, E.
Krai ottsov [Land of the fathers].
Berlin, Parabola, [1934?].
First edition: a collection of poems.
£100
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[EL CID.] CHUDINOV, Aleksandr, translator.
Poema i izbrannye romansy o Side v perevodakh russkikh pisatelei. Ispanskii narodnyi...
St Petersburg, Glazunov, 1897.
First edition of a prose translation into Russian of Cantar de mio Cid, preceded only by a ‘short retelling’ of 1864 by Fyodor Buslaev.
£1250
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FEDIN, Konstantin Aleksandrovich.
Sad [The Orchard].
Petrograd, 1922.
Rare first edition of Konstantin Fedin’s first book, a short story which was awarded first prize by the House of Writers.
£1100
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FEDIN, Konstantin Aleksandrovich.
Goroda i gody. Roman [Cities and years. A novel].
Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel’stvo, 1924.
First edition of Fedin’s autobiographical first novel, Cities and Years, an intense exploration of war and its aftermath, and the role of the intelligentsia in the inevitable revolution looming over society. The cities of the title are Berlin and Moscow, and the years those of the First World War and...
£1200
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FOIX, Josep Vicenç.
Obres poètiques, amb un pròleg de l’autor.
Barcelona, Edicions Nauta, 1964.
First edition of this collected anthology of Foix’s poems and prose pieces, no. 833 of 1100 numbered copies signed by the author, together with the first printing of Desa acquests llibres al calaix de baix.
£200
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[GARCÍA LORCA, Federico, et al.]
Los Cuatro Vientos.
Madrid, Febrero [–Junio], 1933.
The complete run of this short-lived Madrid literary review, from February to June of 1933.
£950
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Bodas de sangre. Tragedia en 3 actos y 7 cuadros… Estrenada en Buenos Aires por la eminente actriz Lola...
Buenos Aires, Teatro del Pueblo, November 1936.
An early edition of Lorca’s Blood Wedding, published, shortly after the poet’s death, in Buenos Aires, where the play had enormous success with Lola Membrives playing the role of the mother.
£300
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Poema del cante jondo.
Santiago de Chile, Editorial Veloz, [1937].
Third edition, published in Santiago de Chile, with an introduction by Pablo Neruda.
£150
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias & Ode à Walt Whitman. Traduits par Rolland-Simon.
[Paris], GLM, 1938.
Rare first edition in French of Lorca’s Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías: copy no. 2 of 20 printed on hollande pannekoek (first paper) of a total edition of 470.
£500