![Item #993 [SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE] Shkola zhestokosti. Sbornik rasskazov [i.e. The School of...](/pictures/thumb/993.jpg?v=1591800375)
Sverdlovsk: OGIZ, 1942. 85, [3] pp. 16x10,5 cm. One of 25000 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Small tear of the spine and loss of the front cover. Otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare edition from the series printed in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) during the German occupation of the European..... More
![Item #157 [UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of...](/pictures/thumb/157.jpg?v=1475076609)
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
![Item #138 [THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/138.jpg?v=1472324983)
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
![Item #120 [FIRST BOOK BY JOYCE IN RUSSIAN] Dublintsy. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. E.N. Fedotovoi...](/pictures/thumb/120.jpg?v=1472131826)
Leningrad: Mysl’, 1927. 3-168 pp. 18x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by Georgy Fitingof. Lacks half-title, small tears of the spine and few damp stains. Otherwise a very good copy. This is the first separate edition of anything by Joyce in Russian. First almost full edition of Dubliners (without..... More
![Item #110 [FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i...](/pictures/thumb/110.jpg?v=1472312469)
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
![Item #100 [FIRST RUSSIAN KEROUAC] Na doroge [i.e. On the Road]. J. Kerouac](/pictures/thumb/100.jpg?v=1450242574)
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
![Item #139 [FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu...](/pictures/thumb/139.jpg?v=1472301241)
St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page. First edition. The book is translated from German the year..... More
![Item #151 [GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES] Blondinki v bol'shom sprose: Nazidatel'nyi dnevnik odnoi...](/pictures/thumb/151.jpg?v=1475068030)
Riga: Literatura, 1927. 3-190, [2] pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original printed wrappers. Restored spine and wrappers, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the verso of back cover, few pages restored (near the spine or the edges). Very rare. Moscow edition was published the same year, and it's hard to say..... More
![Item #43 [MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RUSSIAN] Avtobiografiya [i.e. Autobiography] / translated and...](/pictures/thumb/43.jpg?v=1446527310)
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
![Item #152 [REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F....](/pictures/thumb/152.jpg?v=1475072042)
Moscow: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928. 324, [2] pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated oversized wrappers. Small tears of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop stamp on the back cover. 1 of 6000 copies. First translation. Cover design by P. Miturich. Pyotr Vasilievich Miturich (1887-1956), Russian artist. In 1910-1920..... More
![Item #981 [FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir...](/pictures/thumb/981.jpg?v=1591794516)
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
![Item #37 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE IN RUSSIAN] Nad propastyu vo rzhi [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/37.JPG?v=1443413176)
Translated by R. Wright-Kovaleva. The full text of the novel is extracted from the November issue of Inostrannaya literatura (Foreign Literature) and bound together with other Western novels from the same periodical including W. Faulkner’s The Mansion, Jay Deiss’ Great infidel , Erskine Coldwell’s Jenny (all unfinished). In owner’s 1960s..... More
![Item #15 [SALINGER PORTRAIT IN RUSSIAN EDITION] Nad propastyu vo rzhi. Vyshe stropila, plotniki....](/pictures/thumb/15.JPG?v=1443413175)
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1965. 254, [2] pp., 1 portrait. The original illustrated cardboards. The boards are rubbed. The first edition in Russian of The Catcher in the Rye which had first appeared in serial form in Inostrannaya Literatura five years earlier. As a devotee to the Kashkin school of..... More
![Item #90 [THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA] Kreiserstvo Semtera i Alabamy. Per. s angl. Sost. po...](/pictures/thumb/90.jpg?v=1450415364)
St. Petersburg: Kom. po ustroistvu dobrovolnogo flota, 1878. VIII, 490 pp. 25x18 cm. Later cloth binding. Owner's signature on the last page, very rare light foxing. Otherwise a near fine crispy copy. First edition. Interesting book regarding the influence of American navy on Russian naval system. Raphael Semmes..... More
![Item #1044 [EARLY TRANSLATION OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE] Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid: Drama v 5...](/pictures/thumb/1044.jpg?v=1601474507)
St. Petersburg: V tip. F. Stellovskogo, 1860. 52 pp. 24x15,5 cm. In modern half-leather binding with marbled covers; gilt lettering on the spine. Title page repared, some soiling, otherwise very good. Facsimile of the translator's signature mounted on the front endpaper. First edition. Very rare. One of the..... More
![Item #1045 [ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v...](/pictures/thumb/1045.jpg?v=1601474810)
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
![Item #158 [SINCLAIR FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Izbrannye rasskazy: Rasskaz dlya nachal'nogo chteniya...](/pictures/thumb/158.jpg?v=1475084763)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 35 pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Front cover is separate from the text block, some rubbings of wrappers, slightly rusted staples. Cover design by illustrator D.A. Bazhanov (1902-1946). The story is followed by small vocabulary. More
![Item #97 [FIRST RUSSIAN STEINBECK] Grozdiya gneva / Perevod s angl. N. Volzhinoi [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/97.jpg?v=1450212613)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1940. 504 pp.: ill., 1 front. (ill.). 20x13,5 cm. Illustrations by L. Brodaty. In original publisher's illustrated card boards. Covers slightly rubbed, owner's signature on the front endpaper, owner's ink book stamp on the title page, pp. 17, 41, 504; a small wormhole on the lower side of..... More
![Item #104 [THOREAU IN RUSSIAN] Filosofiya estestvennoi zhizni. Izbrannye mysli Genri Davida Toro...](/pictures/thumb/104.jpg?v=1472302866)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1903. 82 pp.: port. 20,5x15 cm. In later plain wrappers. Rubbed wrappers, with some soiling and owner's pencil markings in the text, bookshop markings on the inner side of the back cover. Otherwise a very good copy. Thoreau had a major influence on a lot of writers..... More
![Item #134 [EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/134.jpg?v=1472322029)
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
![Item #150 [AMERICAN POETRY IN RUSSIAN] Iz amerikanskikh poetov [i.e. From American Poets]. M. A....](/pictures/thumb/150.jpg?v=1475066124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1946. 136 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fine. Tiny tears of the spine. Most of the poems are translated into Russian for the first time. Translations of American poets: Philip Freneau, William Bryant, Ralph Emerson, Henry Longfellow, John Whittier, James Riley, Walt Whitman..... More