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Item #157 [UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of...

[UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary school / by V. Shor

Beecher-Stowe, H.

Leningrad: State text-book Publishing House, 1954. Second edition. 142, [2] pp.: ill. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine, loss of the small fragment of the top left corner of the front cover, Soviet bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the p.1. Cover..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #138 [THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e....

[THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New York. Stories / Trans. from English by P. Okhrimenko].

Bercovici, K.

Moscow: Sovremennye problemy, 1926. 148, [12] pp. 17x12,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. In original publisher's illustrated cover. The back cover is not attached to the book, lacking two small pieces of the spine, tears of the spine, some soiling of the covers. Otherwise a good copy. First Russian edition..... More

Price: $300.00

Item #1542 [WALT WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS AS AN APPLE OF DISCORD] Uot Uitmen: Poeziya...

[WALT WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS AS AN APPLE OF DISCORD] Uot Uitmen: Poeziya gryadushchey demokratii [i.e. Walt Whitman: Poetry of the Future Democracy]

Chukovsky, K.

Moscow; Petrograd: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 6-ye izd. M.; Petrograd.: Gos. izd-vo, 1923. 165, [3] pp., 1 portrait. 23.6x15.6 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. First few pages detached, loss of the pieces of the spine, tears of the wrappers, neat restoration of the front wrapper (tape). Good. Scarce..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #1486 Mankhetten = Manhattan Transfer : Roman [i.e. Manhattan Transfer: Novel]. J. Dos Passos

Mankhetten = Manhattan Transfer : Roman [i.e. Manhattan Transfer: Novel]

Dos Passos, J.

Leningrad: Mysl’, [1927]. 412, [4] pp. 16,5x13 cm. In contemporary binding. Rubbed and bumped, soiling and foxing occasionally, small colored pencil not on t.p., stamps of Soviet moving library for self-education on t.p. and page with table of contents. First Russian edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #155 [RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E....

[RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]

Hemingway, E.

Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #1615 Dublintsy (Dubliners) : Rasskazy [i.e. Dubliners : Stories]. J. Joyce

Dublintsy (Dubliners) : Rasskazy [i.e. Dubliners : Stories]

Joyce, J.

Leningrad: Mysl’, 1927. 168 pp. 17,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and edges of covers restored, pale water stains on outer edge of pages and front cover, otherwise very good and clean. First Russian edition of the work and early publication of James Joyce in the USSR. One..... More

Price: $2,500.00
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Item #110 [FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i...

[FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i osnovopolozheniye k metafizike nravov / polnyi perevod s primechaniyami i prilozheniyem Kratkogo ocherka prakticheskoi filosofii sost. N. Smirnov [i.e. Critique of Practical Reason].

Kant, I.

St. Petersburg: tip. A. Transhelya, 1879. XVIII, 110, 192, [3] pp. 20х14 cm. Contemporary half leather with faded gilt-lettering on the spine. Original covers are preserved. Rubbed, private library ink stamps on the front pastedown, cover and last page, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the title page, owner’s markings in text..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #100 [FIRST RUSSIAN KEROUAC] Na doroge [i.e. On the Road]. J. Kerouac

[FIRST RUSSIAN KEROUAC] Na doroge [i.e. On the Road]

Kerouac, J.

Moscow: Inostrannaya literatura, 1960. Na doroge // Inostrannaya literatura. 1960. №10. Pp.195 [i.e. On the Road // Foreign Literature]. 318, [2] pp.: ill., 6 ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed and shaken, tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the back cover and p. 318, soiling on the last..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #1488 [PULP FICTION FROM RIGA] Prostitutka: Roman [i.e. Prostitute: A Novel]. V. Margueritte

[PULP FICTION FROM RIGA] Prostitutka: Roman [i.e. Prostitute: A Novel]

Margueritte, V.

Riga: Knigoizdatel’stvo O.D. Strok, 1924. 170 pp., 4 pp. of advertisements. 20х14,5 cm. In period cardboards, the original front cover preserved. Rubbed, tear of the first two leaves along the spine, spots, otherwise very good internally. Lifetime Russian edition being a part of the Riga pulp-fiction phenomenon. A few..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #43 [MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RUSSIAN] Avtobiografiya [i.e. Autobiography] / translated and...

[MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RUSSIAN] Avtobiografiya [i.e. Autobiography] / translated and edited by G.E. Blagosvetov.

Mill, J.S.

St.Petersburg: V. Tushnov, 1874. 332 p. 18x13 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Good condition. First edition of John Stuart Mill's autobiography that was printed in Russian the next year after it appeared in English. Grigory Evlampievich Blagosvetov (1824-1880) who translated this book into Russian was the editor in chief..... More

Price: $500.00

Item #142 [SOCIAL UTOPIA] Vesti niotkuda: Utopiya [i.e. News from Nowhere: Utopia]. W. Morris

[SOCIAL UTOPIA] Vesti niotkuda: Utopiya [i.e. News from Nowhere: Utopia]

Morris, W.

Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1923. 148 pp. 23x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Rubbed covers, tears of the spine, bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the title page and verso of the front cover, foxing. Otherwise very good. Second edition of a classic work News from Nowhere by..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #981 [FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir...

[FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir [i.e. Ten Days that Shook the World] / prefaces by V. Lenin and N. Krupskaya, translated by V. Yarotskiy

Reed, John

Moscow: Krasnaia Nov’, 1923. 315, [1], 4 pp. 23,5x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers by Sergei Chekhonin. A few small bits of the spine missing, the front wrapper is restored (the right bottom corner is missing, not affecting the image). Overall a very good copy. First edition. Extremely rare..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #37 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE IN RUSSIAN] Nad propastyu vo rzhi [i.e. The...

[FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE IN RUSSIAN] Nad propastyu vo rzhi [i.e. The Catcher in the Rye] // Inostrannaya literatura. No11, 1960.

Salinger, J.D.

Pp. 28-137. 25,5x16,5 cm. In owner’s 1960s Soviet binding with the front wrapper of Inostrannaya Literatura #2, 1963 glued to the front cover (and back wrapper glued to the back cover). Very good, some pencil markings in the text and one piece of a page cut out (not affecting Salinger's..... More

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Item #1752 [HAMLET ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Gamlet. Tragediia v piati deistviiakh. V stikhakh....

[HAMLET ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Gamlet. Tragediia v piati deistviiakh. V stikhakh. Podrazhanie Shekspiru. Predstavlena v pervyj raz na Sanktpeterburgskom teatre pridvornymi ego imperatorskago velichestva akterami v 28 i den’ noiabria 1810-go goda [i.e. Hamlet. Tragedy in Five Actions. In Verses. Adaptation of Shakespeare : Introduced for the First Time by His Imperial Majesty Court Actors at Saint Petersburg Theater on November 28, 1810]

[Shakespeare, W.]

Saint Petersburg: V Morskoi Tipografii, 1811. [6], 56 pp. 20,5x12,5 cm. In late wrappers with title glued to spine; modern slipcase. Stamp of a theatrical library on t.p., some minor stains, few small tears of covers, otherwise mint. One of the earliest Russian adaptations of the whole story. Very..... More

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Item #1753 [OTHELLO ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Drama v piati deistviiiakh...

[OTHELLO ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Drama v piati deistviiiakh Shekspira [i.e. Othello, the Moor of Venice. Tragedy in Five Actions by Shakespeare].

[Shakespeare, W.]

Saint Petersburg: V tipografii Snegireva i Ko, 1836. [2], VI, 213, [2] pp. 21,5x13,5 cm. In modern half-leather with covers marbled; gilt lettering on spine. Some soiling of pages, otherwise near fine. Early Russian translation into prose. Very rare. The story of Othello turned up in Russian publications..... More

Price: $2,500.00
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Item #1045 [ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v...

[ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati deistviiakh [i.e. Romeo and Juliet. Opera in Five Acts] / Music by С. Gounod.

[Shakespeare, W.]

St. Petersburg: Izdanie knigoprodavtsa M.O. Vol’fa, 1871. 23 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In original printed covers. Good, tears of the spine, lacking upper outer corner of last page (text slightly affected) and the back cover, foxing and water stains occasionally. First and lifetime edition of the libretto. Very rare. Italian..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #134 [EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The...

[EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The Poetic Beauties of Edward Young] / translated from English by Mikh. Parenago.

Young, E.

Moscow: Kryazhev and May, 1806. [4], 362, [13] p., 1 frontispiece. 17,7x11,4 cm. Contemporary full leather. Title of the book gilt on the spine. Tiny hole in the title page, some stains but overall very good condition. Owner’s inscription ‘Shilovoy Tatiany’ on the endpapers done in the first quarter of..... More

Price: $1,800.00

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