![Item #612 [PASTERNAK AND GEORGIA] Three letters and signed book by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960),...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/612.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551107329)
1. Pasternak, Boris. Okhrannaia gramota [i.e. The Protection]. Leningrad, 1931. 128 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original cardboards. First edition of Pasternak’s autobiographical book, dedicated to his pre-revolutionary life. Inscribed by Pasternak on the half-title: “To Ilamaz Mitsishvili for the happiness and memory of those magnificent hours, that I spent at..... More
![Item #102 [BALMONT'S BEST BOOK OF POETRY] Budem kak solntse: Kniga simvolov [i.e. Let Us Be Like...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/102.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1528812956)
Moscow: Knigoizdatelstvo Skorpion, 1903. [2], 290 pp. 8vo. The copy is in exceptionally fine contemporary half-leather with marbled boards and endpapers and gilt lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper illustrated by Fidus (the famous German symbolist artist Hugo Hoppener) preserved. A fine copy. First edition. This is..... More
![Item #2340 [THE LAST BOOK UNDER PSEUDONYM ANTOSHA CHEKHONTE] Nevinnye rechi [i.e. Innocent...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2340.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742897746)
Moscow: Izd. zhurnala “Sverchok”, 1887. 241, [3] pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. In modern half leather and modern case. The title page and the last page are skillfully restored. The rest of the block is in very good condition and clean. The Soviet bookselling stamps on the last page. First edition..... More
![Item #2341 [RUSSIAN PENAL SYSTEM] Ostrov Sakhalin. Iz putevyh zametok [i.e. Sakhalin Island. From...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2341.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742897889)
Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev, 1895. [4], III, 520 p.; 19,5x14 cm. Contemporary quoter-leather binding. Black lettering on the spine. Minor foxing on the title page, the spine has a tear, but it is still strong. Otherwise a very good copy. The first edition of the famous Chekhov’s travel diaries. The..... More
![Item #2018 [AN UNDERGROUND HANDWRITTEN COPY OF GRIBOEDOV’S WOE FROM WIT] Gore ot uma: Komediya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2018.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714484301)
Poltava: 1834. [4], 94 pp. 20,8x16,1 cm. Period maroon full leather; front cover with a blind-stamped title “Souvenir S. S. K. – N. S.” Binding slightly rubbed, damp stains on the title page, occasional ink and pencil markings, otherwise very good. An extremely scarce, early uncensored handwritten copy of..... More
![Item #1249 [FIRST NEKRASOV’S WHO IS HAPPY IN RUSSIA?] Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho [i.e. Who...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1249.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631710606)
St. Petersburg: M. Stasyulevich, 1880. [8], 145, 207 pp. 21,5x14 cm. Original publisher’s cloth with few bumps on the edges of the spine, but generally a very good copy. Extremely rare. No auction records found. The first separate edition of the poem which social resonance in Russian society is..... More
![Item #2739 [TOLSTOY ON MARRIAGE AND INTIMACY] Brak i polovaya lyubov’ / s predisloviyem V....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2739.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779917390)
New York: Rabocheye Knigoizdatel’stvo, 1919. 96 pp. 19,5x13,3 cm. In original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers worn, rear wrapper detached, spine lacks fragments, but otherwise good. Scarce. Text in Russian. An extremely rare first compilation of Leo Tolstoy’s controversial thoughts on marriage and intimacy, assembled from his private letters and..... More
![Item #2125 [FIRST OF SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES] Sevastopol’ v dekabre mesiatse // Sovremennik. #6...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2125.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724770367)
St. Petersburg: 1855. Pp. 333-348. 24x15 cm. Modern binding. Original printed wrapper preserved. Some soiling and stains of some pages, pen marks on the front wrapper, occasional foxing. Otherwise very good. First publication. The short story was based on Tolstoy’s first impressions from being in Sevastopol in..... More
![Item #2126 [FIRST SHORT STORY BY TOLSTOY] Nabeg. Rasskaz volontiora // Sovremennik. Tom 39 [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724770816)
St. Petersburg: 1853. Pp. 93-120. 24x15 cm. Modern binding, two last leaves (Contents) with restoration, one page with small loss of the text (not Tolstoy). Otherwise very good. First publication of 'The Raid' and second publication of anything by Tolstoy. The story is based on Tolstoy’s own experience as..... More
![Item #2133 [FIRST THE CUTTING OF THE FOREST AND SECOND SEVASTOPOL SKETCH]. L. N Tolstoy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2133.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724781266)
St. Petersburg: 1855. Noch. Vesnoiu 1855 goda v Sevastopole // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Night. Sevastopol in Spring of 1855 // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 5-30. Rubka lesa // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Cutting of the Forest // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 35-68. 24x15 cm..... More
![Item #214 [SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/214.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724780562)
1902. Manuscript. 89 pp. 22x17,5 cm. Inscription ‘K. Gorbachev. Moscow. 1902’ on the endpaper. Owner’s contemporary binding. Brass corners on the front cover. Good condition. Handwritten notes to unrelated book at the back. The rare example of the handwritten summary of Tolstoy’s adaptation of Gospels. It was made in..... More
![Item #1342 [THE FIRST EDITION OF TURGENEV’S FATHERS AND SONS] Otsy i deti [i.e. Fathers and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1342.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650336720)
Moscow: tip. V. Grachiova, 1862. 304 pp. In contemporary Italian half-leather. Gilt ornament on the spine. 24x17 cm. Pre-revolutionary stamps of the Russian library in Rome on the title page alongside the inventory numbers, otherwise a good tall fresh copy of an important and rare book. The first..... More
![Item #211 [ONE OF THE RAREST RUSSIAN MIMEOGRAPH BOOKS] Novyi Giperborei. Zhurnal Tsekha poetov....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483924388)
Petrograd: 1921. 20 pp., ill. 27,5х22 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Fine. One of 23 copies. Extremely rare, especially in such mint condition. This magazine (de facto almanac) was printed using mimeograph because after the revolution there was a great deficit of materials and publishers (a lot of handwritten..... More
![Item #561 [FIRST BOOK BY BULGAKOV] Dyavoliada. Rasskazy [i.e. Devildom. Short Stories]. M. Bulgakov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/561.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547034729)
Moscow: Nedra, 1925. 160 pp. 23x15 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers carefully restored, previous owner’s signature on the front wrapper and t.p. (red pencil), restoration of a several lower margins of pages, occasional brown spots. Otherwise good. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. First edition of the..... More
![Item #1050 [FIRST BOOK BY BULGAKOV] Dyavoliada (or Diavoliada). Rasskazy [i.e. Diaboliad. Short...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1050.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601548718)
Moscow: Nedra, 1925. 160 pp. 23x15 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wrappers carefully restored, back cover is new, previous owner’s signature on t.p. (red pencil), margins of several pages restored, occasional brown spots. Otherwise very good. First edition of the first book by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) and the only..... More
![Item #580 [FIRST BULGAKOV ’ S FATAL EGGS] Rokovye yaitsa, povest’ [i.e. The Fatal Eggs, A...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/580.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547733159)
Moscow: Nedra, 1925. Pp. 79-148. 23,5x15 cm. In publisher’s wrappers. Rubbed wrappers with small tears, a copy is a bit loose and some pages are detached, couple of pages with a small tear of the margin (text not touched). Otherwise very good. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. First..... More
![Item #287 [THE VERY FIRST MASTER AND MARGARITA] Master i Margarita. Roman [i.e. Master and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/287.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500464733)
[In:] Moskva... #11, 1966; #1, 1967. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdanie khudozhstvennoi literatury, 1966-1967. Pp. 6-127 (#11, 1966), pp.56-144 pp. (#1, 1967). 24,9x16 cm. In two issues, both in original printed wrappers, with marbled edges. Very good, spines neatly restored (but without lettering «Moskva», year and # of the issue on them)..... More
![Item #887 [THE VERY FIRST MASTER AND MARGARITA] Master i Margarita. Roman [i.e. Master and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/887.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576158845)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdanie khudozhstvennoi literatury, 1966-1967. Pp. 6-127 (#11, 1966), pp.56-144 pp. (#1, 1967). 24,9x16 cm. In two issues, both in original printed wrappers, with marbled edges. Restored, water stains and pale stamps in issue of 1966, otherwise good and clean. Scarce on the market. The first printed..... More
![Item #610 [BEST WORK OF JOURNALISM WRITTEN IN THE 19th CENTURY] Ostrov Sakhalin. Iz putevykh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/610.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550582155)
Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev, 1895. [4], III, 520 pp. 19,5x14 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Gilt lettering on the spine. Minor restoration of the spine otherwise a very good copy. The first edition of the famous Anton Chekhov’s (1860-1904) travel diaries. Chekhov was sending his notes to the periodical ‘Russkaya Mysl’..... More
![Item #17 [THE CHERRY ORCHARD: FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT] Vishnevyi sad [i.e. The Cherry Orchard]...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446490032)
St. Petersburg: Znanie, 1904. [4], 318, [2] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's wrappers. Spine is carefully restored. First printing of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Rare in original wrappers. The complete version is included here in the second volume of the ''Znanie'' almanac for 1903, on pp. 29–105, together with..... More
![Item #177 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL] Chaika. Komedia v 4-kh deistviakh //...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/177.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483893451)
Moscow: Tipo-lit. Tov-va I.N. Kushnera, 1896. Pp. 117-161. 23,7x15 cm. In modern half-leather and case. Fine, a few pencil markings. First publication of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Very rare. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. The play was written in 1895 and..... More
![Item #611 [FIRST THREE SISTERS] Tri sestry [i.e. Three Sisters] // Russkaia mysl’. God...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/611.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550582475)
Moscow: Tipo-lit. I. N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1901. [4], 218 pp., [6] pp. - ad. 24x16 cm. In modern half leather with gilt lettering and inlaid colored ornament on the spine, with marbled edges. Pre-revolutionary stamp on t.p., a couple of stains on p.6-7, otherwise near fine. The first..... More
![Item #46 [THE BOOK THAT PLANTED A SEED OF
REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA] Chto Delat? [What Is To Be...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1449691392)
St. Petersburg: 1863. (In the original printing of nos. 3-5 of Sovremennik [The Contemporary] (March-May, 1863). pp. [2], 5-142; 373-526; 55-197 + [1]: "Zagadka", by N. Berg. Contemporary quarter-leather. New endpapers, title in gilt on the spine is also modern. Some very occasional staining, pencil underscores in text. Good copy..... More
![Item #165 [DOSTOYEVSKY’S SECOND BOOK] Zapiski iz myortvogo doma. (V dvukh chastyakh)...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483882301)
St. Petersburg: Izd. A.F. Bazunova; v tipografii Iosafata Ogryzko, 1862. P.1. [4], 269 pp.; P.2. [4], 198 pp. 13,5х21 cm. Second edition. In contemporary quarter leather binding with gilt-lettering on the spine (two parts in one volume). Boards rubbed and stained, corners and spine ends bumped, occasional foxing, small cracks..... More
![Item #841 [SCANDALOUS EDITION OF ‘CRIME AND PUNISHMENT’] Prestuplenie i nakazanie [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/841.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569969003)
Moscow: Nauka, 1970. 808 pp.: ill., 12 ills. 22x18 cm. In original full cloth with lettering on the front cover and spine, in original dust jacket. Few minor tears and pale stains on dust jacket, otherwise near fine. One of the best illustrated editions of Dostoevsky in Russian... More