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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
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TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.
Kniaz’ Serebrianyi. Povest’ vremen Ioanna Groznago. S predisloviem kn. D. N. Tserteleva....
Moscow, V. G. Got’e [Gautier], 1892.
First edition thus, printed on papier vélin and signed by the publisher, one of a number of bibliophile editions of Russian classics brought out by Gautier in the 1890s. Copies were also printed on japon.
£1600
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Khoziain i rabotnik. Povest’ [Master and Man. A Story].
St Petersburg, V.S. Balashev and Co., 10 March 1895.
One of the earliest printings of one of Tolstoy’s greatest late short stories, revolving around a Damascene moment in the life of an avaricious landowner.
£3000
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[TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.] BIRIUKOV, Pavel Ivanovich (editor).
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi. Biografiia. Sostavil P. Biriukov...
Moscow, Pechkovsky, ‘Posrednik’, 1906[-8].
First edition, rare, of the first authorised biography of Tolstoy (then aged seventy-eight), by his friend, secretary and disciple Pavel Biriukov (1860–1931), drawing on much unpublished archival material and written in personal consultation with Tolstoy over a period of at least six years.
£1800
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
I. Pis’mo k Kitaitsu. (Oktabria 1906 g.) II. Kitaiskaia mudrost’. Mysli kitaiskikh myslitelei, sobrannyia...
Moscow, “Posrednika”, 1907.
First edition, very rare, of Tolstoy’s open letter to the Malaysian-Chinese man of letters Gu Hongming, who had sent several of his works to Tolstoy, including Papers from a Viceroy’s Yamen (1905).
£2250
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[TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.] ORLOV, Nikolai.
Russkie Muzhiki. Kartiny khudozhnika N. Orlova, s predisloviem Leva Nikolaevicha Tolstogo...
St Petersburg, R. Golik & A. Vilborg, 1909.
First and only edition of this album of nine black and white reproductions of folk-art paintings by the peasant artist Nikolai Orlov, prefaced by an 8-page introduction by Tolstoy. The realistic portrayal of Russian society, especially of the peasantry, was a cause beloved by Tolstoy, and is a key feature...
£1200
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Posmertnyia zapiski startsa Fedora Kuz’micha umershago 20-go ianvaria 1864 goda v Sibiri, bliz goroda...
St Petersburg, V. Vrublevskii, 1912.
First edition, very rare, of an unfinished story, begun in 1905, exploring the popular legend that Tsar Alexander I had staged his own death in 1825 and had gone into hiding as the hermit Fedor Kuz’mich.
£1750