![MAYAKOVSKY AS A PLAYWRIGHT] Mayakovskiy dramaturg [i.e. Mayakovsky The Playwright]. A. Fevralskiy](/pictures/thumb/1109.jpg?v=1604438975)
Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1940. 154 pp., [1] ill.: portrait. 20x13.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s cloth. Fine. First edition. Scarce. With remarkable constructivist design. ONE OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES OF VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY’S DRAMATURGICAL LEGACY WRITTEN BY THE SOVIET ART CRITIC AND THEORIST ALEXANDER FEVRALSKIY (1901-1984). Following Mayakovsky’s suicide..... More
![ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA] Bezbozhniki [i.e. Godless People]. I. Lebedev](/pictures/thumb/1047.jpg?v=1601543971)
Moscow: Komissiia po uluchsheniiu zhizni detei pri VTsIK i koop. izdatel’stva “Zhizn' i znanie”, 1924. 48 pp. 17,5x13 cm. In original wrappers with decorated frame. Tear of the spine along the staple, some stains. First edition. One of 10 000 copies. Extremely rare. Signed by the author on..... More
![EARLY TRANSLATION OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE] Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid: Drama v 5 deistviiakh...](/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
![ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v piati...](/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
![FIRST APPEARANCE OF CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL] Chaika. Komedia v 4-kh deistviakh // Russkaia mysl....](/pictures/thumb/177.jpg?v=1483893452)
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