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KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich, and Nikolai Pavlovich DMITREVSKY (illustrator).
Emel’ian Pugachev, poema. Graviury...
[Leningrad], ‘Molodaia Gvardiia’, 1931.
First edition of Kamensky’s long narrative poem, preceded by a play on the same subject in 1925.
£1200
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KAPITSA, Olga, and Yuri VASNETSOV.
Зайка [Little Hare] .
Leningrad, Detizdat Ts K VLKSM, 1936.
First edition of this collection of eleven traditional folk tales and songs about the hare and his encounters with huntsmen, foxes and other animals, charmingly written by Olga Kapitsa and illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov, one of Russia’s leading artists of children’s books.
£350
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KARAMZIN, Nikolai Mikhailovich.
Aglaja. Romantische und historische Erzählungen. Nach dem Russischen des Karamzin herausgegeben...
Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1819.
First appearance of a collection of eight prose pieces by Karamzin (1766–1826) in German translation. Although the work takes the title of the first Russian literary almanac, Aglaia, published by Karamzin in two volumes, 1794–5, it is actually a selection of pieces by Karamzin taken both from Aglaia...
£750
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KHARMS, Daniil Ivanovich, translator. BUSCH, Wilhelm.
Plikh i Pliukh [Plisch und Plum].
Moscow, Detizdat, 1937.
First edition in book form, very rare, of Daniil Kharms’s Russian free verse translation of the children’s story by Wilhelm Busch about two mischievous dogs, second only in fame to his Max und Moritz. The translation had been first published in the children’s magazine Chizh in 1936 (nos. 8-12),...
£3000
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KLIUEV, Nikolai Alekseevich.
Izbianyia pesni [Izba Songs].
Berlin, “Skify”, [1920].
First edition. Nikolai Klyuev (1887–1937) was the leader of the so-called peasant poets, and Esenin’s erstwhile friend and mentor. This collection suitably takes its name from the izba, the traditional Russian peasant’s hut.
£250
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KLIUEV, Nikolai Alekseevich.
Chetvertyi Rim [The Fourth Rome].
St Petersburg, “Epokha”, 1922.
First edition of Klyuev’s attack on Esenin.
£280
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KOROLENKO, Vladimir Galaktionovich.
Dom No. 13-yi. Epizod iz Kishinevskago Pogroma [House No. 13. An episode from the Kishinev...
Berlin, Johannes Räde, 1904.
First edition printed in Berlin (first, London 1903) of Korolenko’s description of the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903, in which he denounces anti-Semitism and religious persecution. The work was prohibited by the Russian censor and had to be published abroad.
£200
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KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Lozh’. Roman [The Lie. A Novel].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, [1939].
First edition, written in Berlin in 1938-9.
£600
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KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Mantyk, okhotnik na l’vov. Povest’ [Mantyk, lion-hunter. A story].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, 1928.
First edition, an African safari adventure for younger readers, by the exiled ataman of the Don Cossacks.
£1200
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KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
S Ermakom na Sibir! Povest’ [With Ermak to Siberia! A story].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, [1929].
First edition, an illustrated children’s story about the sixteenth-century Cossack leader Ermak Timofeevich, whose exploration of Siberia in the 1580s marked the beginning of Russia’s expansion into the interior.
£1000
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KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Nenavist’. Roman [Hatred. A Novel].
Paris, E. Siial’skaia, [1934].
First edition, one of 1000 copies on normal paper from an edition of 1007. It was also translated into German and Italian.
£600
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KRASNOV, Petr Nikolaevich.
Domoi! (na l’gote). Roman [Homewards! (On leave). A novel].
Paris, V. Siial’skii, [1936].
First edition, one of 1000 copies on normal paper from an edition of 1002; a novel of soldiers on leave.
£600
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KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich.
Zaumnyi iazyk u: Seifullinoi, Vs. Ivanova, Leonova, Babelia, I. Sel’vinskogo, A. Veselogo, i...
Moscow, Publishing house of the All-Russian Union of Poets, 1925.
First edition, a critical study of six poets by ‘the most effective theoretician of cubo-futurism and its most loyal and consistent advocate of transrational language … or the destruction of meaning in poetry … For Kruchonykh, transrational language also reflected the confusion and chaos...
£650
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KUNDERA, Milan.
Smĕšné lásky. Tři melancholické anekdoty.
Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1963.
First edition of all three volumes of the trilogy which makes up Kundera’s early collection of short stories, Laughable Loves. ‘My writing took flight with the first story for Laughable Loves. This was my Opus 1. Everything I'd written prior to it can be considered prehistory’...
£500
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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