![UNCLE TOM'S CABIN FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Uncle Tom's Cabin: Adapted for 8th class of the secondary...](/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
![THE DUST OF NEW YORK] Pyl' Niu-Iorka. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. P. Okhrimenko [i.e. Dust of New...](/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
![PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s angliiskogo...](/pictures/thumb/13.jpg?v=1443221497)
Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Good condition. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s unique fictional register..... More
![DREISER IN THE SOVIET UNION] Niu-Iork [i.e. New York]. T. Dreiser](/pictures/thumb/773.jpg?v=1563927313)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 127 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original constructivist style wrappers and original illustrated dust jacket with portrait of the author by Hugo Gellert. Near fine, previous owner’s stamp on t.p. and few ink marks, two stains on dust jacket. First thus edition. One of 7000..... More
![THE FIFTH COLUMN IN RUSSIAN] Pyataya kolonna i pervye tridtsat’ vosem’ rasskazov / Per. s...](/pictures/thumb/187.jpg?v=1494607124)
Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1939. 656 pp. 17,4x12 cm. In original cloth. Fine. This is the first edition of the play The Fifth Column and anthology of the writings by Ernest Hemingway (first published in 1938). The original edition was of forty-nine stories which was also the title. A few less..... More
![RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E. Hemingway](/pictures/thumb/155.jpg?v=1475075056)
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
![HISTORY OF SOCIALISM] Istoriya sotsializma v Soedinyonnykh Shtatakh / Per. s 4 amer. izd. M.I....](/pictures/thumb/162.jpg?v=1475159269)
St. Petersburg: Tip. t-va ''Obshchestvennaya pol'za'', 1907. X, [2], 275 pp. 23x16 cm. Original wrappers. Uncut copy. Very good. Few tears of the spine, lacking small piece from the top of the spine. First Russian edition. Morris Hillquit (1869–1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party..... More
![FIRST ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN EDITION OF THREE MEN IN THE BOAT] Troye v lodke. (Ne schitaya sobaki) /...](/pictures/thumb/21.jpg?v=1446527309)
St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Volf, [1907]. [4], IV, VI, 296 pp., 1 front., 19 ill. 8vo. Original red cloth gold and black stamped binding, decorated endpapers in black and gold. Restorations to the spine, covers rubbed, some spots and light wear of the pages. This edition with 20 plates..... More
![FIRST BOOK BY JOYCE IN RUSSIAN] Dublintsy. Rasskazy / Perevod s angl. E.N. Fedotovoi [i.e....](/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
![FIRST RUSSIAN CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON] Kritika prakticheskogo razuma i osnovopolozheniye k...](/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
![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
![FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu Severnymi i...](/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
![GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES] Blondinki v bol'shom sprose: Nazidatel'nyi dnevnik odnoi molodoi damy /...](/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
![MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RUSSIAN] Avtobiografiya [i.e. Autobiography] / translated and edited by...](/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
![SOCIAL UTOPIA] Vesti niotkuda: Utopiya [i.e. News from Nowhere: Utopia]. W. Morris](/pictures/thumb/142.jpg?v=1474967465)
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
![REED'S THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE] Vdol' fronta / Per. s angl. I.V. Sablina i V.F. Korsha [i.e....](/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
![FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE IN RUSSIAN] Nad propastyu vo rzhi [i.e. The Catcher in...](/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
![SALINGER PORTRAIT IN RUSSIAN EDITION] Nad propastyu vo rzhi. Vyshe stropila, plotniki. Horosho...](/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
![THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA] Kreiserstvo Semtera i Alabamy. Per. s angl. Sost. po lichnomu...](/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
![DON QUIXOTE IN RUSSIAN] Don-Kihot Lamanchskiy [i.e. Don Quixote, the Night of Sad Countenance and...](/pictures/thumb/714.jpg?v=1562883236)
St. Petersburg: A.F. Devrien, 1883. [2], 64 pp., 6 chromolithographic plates. 26x19 cm. Original cardboard binding. First edition. The spine is scuffed, the pages are soiled towards the end, few tears. Generally in good condition for the Russian children’s book of the 1880s. More
![SINCLAIR FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Izbrannye rasskazy: Rasskaz dlya nachal'nogo chteniya na...](/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
![FIRST RUSSIAN STEINBECK] Grozdiya gneva / Perevod s angl. N. Volzhinoi [i.e. The Grapes of Wrath...](/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
![THOREAU IN RUSSIAN] Filosofiya estestvennoi zhizni. Izbrannye mysli Genri Davida Toro / S angl....](/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
![EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The Poetic Beauties...](/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
![AMERICAN POETRY IN RUSSIAN] Iz amerikanskikh poetov [i.e. From American Poets]. M. A. Zenkevich](/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