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This department specialises in rare and important works of French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and South American literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Here you can find first editions and signed or presentation copies of authors as diverse as Akhmatova, Balzac, Borges, Camus, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Goldoni, Hugo, Kafka, Leopardi, Lorca, Manzoni, Pirandello, Pushkin, Schiller, Tolstoy, Zola, and many others. Among the important works which have passed through our hands are the original working manuscript of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, now in the Pushkin House in St Petersburg, the only known copy of the first edition of Brecht's first play, Baal (1920) with his working notes, and an extraordinary collection of Pushkin first editions.

 
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  1. SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

    Iav’. Poema [Reality. A poem].

    Moscow & St Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.

    First edition, written by the poet on a...

    £400

  2. SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

    Mater Dolorosa.

    St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921.

    First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s first...

    £450

  3. SIDOROV, Gurii Aleksandrovich.

    Vedro ognia [A bucket of fire].

    Moscow, [All-Russian Union of Poets, 1920].

    £150

  4. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  5. SKABICHEVSKII, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.

    Ocherki istorii russkoi tsenzury (1700-1863...

    St Petersburg, F. Pavlenkov, 1892.

    First edition of the critic and journalist...

    £500

  6. SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].

    Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].

    Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,]...

    First edition, containing three cycles...

    £550

  7. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.

    Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter...

    Paris, YMCA, 1974.

    First printed edition of a letter written...

    £150

  8. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.

    Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].

    Paris, YMCA, 1975.

    First edition, comprising three speeches...

    £150

  9. STEPNIAK-KRAVCHINSKII, Sergius Mikhailovich.

    Подпольная Россiя ч. 1....

    Kiev, Otdel soldatskoi kooperatsii K....

    Extremely rare Civil War edition (first...

    £125

  10. [ST PETERSBURG SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.] HOLTEI, Karl Eduard von.

    Lenore. Vaterländisches Schauspiel mit...

    Berlin, Duncker and Humblot, 1829.

    First edition of one of Holtei’s best-known...

    £280

  11. STRINDBERG, August.

    Tschandala. Berättelse fran 1600–talet.

    Stockholm, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags, 1897.

    First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set...

    £250

  12. STRINDBERG, Johan August.

    Trefaldighetsnatten.

    Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1909].

    First separate edition of a collection...

    £200

  13. TAMAMSHEV, Aleksandr Artem’evich.

    Iz plamia i sveta [From the Flame and...

    Petrograd, [R. Golike & A. Vil’borg,] 1918.

    First edition. The title is taken from...

    £250

  14. TARSIS, Valerii Iakovlevich.

    Skazanie o sinei mukhe. Krasnoe i chernoe...

    Frankfurt am Main, Posev, 1963.

    First edition in Russian of Tarsis’ first...

    £90

  15. TOALDO, Giuseppe.

    Tavole di vitalità.

    Padua, Conzatti, 1787.

    Sole edition of the first Italian published...

    £1500

  16. TOLSTOY, Aleksei Nikolaevich.

    Lirika.

    St Petersburg, [S.M. Muller,] 1907.

    First edition, very rare: ‘the first...

    £1000

  17. TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.

    Kniaz’ Serebrianyi. Povest’ vremen...

    Moscow, V. G. Got’e [Gautier], 1892.

    First edition thus, printed on papier vélin...

    £1600

  18. TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.

    Smert’ Ioanna Groznago, tragediia v piati...

    St Petersburg, Naval Ministry Press, 1866.

    First edition: the first in the great trilogy...

    £2000

  19. TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.

    Khoziain i rabotnik. Povest’ [Master...

    St Petersburg, V.S. Balashev and Co.,...

    One of the earliest printings of one of...

    £3000

  20. [TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.] BIRIUKOV, Pavel Ivanovich (editor).

    Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi. Biografiia. Sostavil...

    Moscow, Pechkovsky, ‘Posrednik’, 1906[-8].

    First edition, rare, of the first authorised...

    £1800