TURGENEV, I. S ( Konashevich)

Pervaya Lyubov' [First Love].

Berlin Peterburg, Z. I. Grzhebin, 1922. Original decorated paper wrappers, 10x15cm. In very good condition. All decorations and illustrations by V Konashevich. Half title vignette, frontis. 3 other full page plates and 2 tailpieces in colour, with b/w in-text illustrations too. Very attractive. Used; Very Good All decorations and illustrations by V Konashevich. Paperback.

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Book number: 36088

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Konashevich|Featured|Russistica|Illustrated|Russian|Literature

TYLER, Anne

Digging to America.

Chatto & Windus, 2006. First UK edition. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight almost as new. Inoffensive 1 cm. defective trim to lower corner half-title and title page Used; Almost as new. It was Friday, August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Hardback.

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Book number: 36845

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: English|American|Literature|Featured

VARGYAS, Lajos (Arthur H Whitney trans.)

Researches Into the Mediaeval History of Folk Ballad.

Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1967. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. With folding maps, lengthy bibliography. Large piece torn from dust-wrapper at back. Used; Very Good "Little attention, as Dr Vargyas says, has been paid to European versions, which, especially in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe display a primitiveness, even savagery which make the Border Ballads look almost pretty.." (Dean-Smith, 1968) . Hardback.

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Book number: 36628

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Special Collection|Featured|Folk-Lore|Tradition|Hungary|Central Europe|Epic

VINOGRADOV, Anatolii

The Black Consul. Translated from the Russian by Emile Burns.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. An excellent copy in original yellow dust-wrapper printed in black and red. 447pp. Clean and tight. Very minor chipping to dust-wrapper and some fading. Fore-edges a little dusty. Used; Very Good "The revolution has need of all kinds of books.. The Black Consul is a net that gathers up all lessons of the French Revolution in France and in Haiti, and lays them before us in orderly and related fashion .. The Black Consul is something less than a novel by reason of its lack of pattern and development. It calls itself a "narrative." Becker, 1935. Hardback.

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Book number: 33979

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Haiti|French Revolution|Russia|Revolution|Featured|Napoleon

VOGEL, Lucy (Ed. and translated). Blok

Blok an Anthology of Essays and Memoirs

Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1982. xiii+226pp. b/w photos, bibliography. Used; Very Good With reminiscences and essays by Chukovsky, Gorky, Akhmatova, Gumilyov, Bryusov, Eikhenbaum, Zhirmunsky, Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak. Paperback.

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Book number: 34045

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Alexander Blok|Poetry|Russian|Literature|Featured|Akhmatova|Pasternak|Gorky|Chukovsky

WARTENEGG, Wilhelm von

Der Gottversprochene.

Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh, 1890. Small 8vo. 10.5x16cm, 96pp. original red cloth ornately lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated in gold and black. Silk marker. A very attractive copy. Very bright, crisp and clean. Hardback.

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Book number: 32958

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: German|Literature|Wartenegg|Featured|Religion|Theology

Wasiolek, Edward (ed. and tr.)

Doestoevsky: The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1967. Includes 8 pages of b/w facsimiles of the original pages of the notebooks. A very nice bright copy in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 36697

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Dostoevskii|Featured

WEDGWOOD, C. V. (Ed.).

New Poems 1965. A P.E. N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. [Poems by Dannie Abse, D.J. Enright, Mervyn Peake, Stevie Smith, D.M. Thomas Et Al. ]

London, Hutchinson, 1961. Small 8vo in original cloth-backed boards and decorated unclipped dust-wrapper. 135 pp. In good condition, tight and clean, mild damp spotting to fore-edges. New, unpublished poems by122 contemporary poets. The twelfth in the series. Striking design in green to boards and dust-wrapper by Michael Carder.

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Book number: 38052

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Book-Cover-Design|Mid-Century-Modern|Featured|Literature|Poetry|Britain

WEINGAND, Hans-Peter (Ed.)

Der Unbekannte Peter Rosegger:

Graz, Clio, 2018. 8vo. hardback, decorated boards, 319pp. sources and photographs. In very good condition. Clean and tight. Austrian poet from Styria. Das Leben und Nachleben des steirischen Schriftstellers bietet jenseits seiner aktuellen Stilisierung vom „Waldbauernbub" zum „Universalgenie" zahlreiche unbekannte Aspekte, die nur durch Sichtung von Dokumenten in seinem Nachlass bzw. in zahlreichen Archiven dokumentiert werden können. Der Bogen spannt sich dabei über Texte zum Thema Emanzipation, Antisemitismus, Katholizismus über Schilderungen ländlicher Verhältnisse im Bereich Hygiene oder Kindererziehung bis zur selbstkritischen Lebensbilanz und Todessatire.

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Book number: 38527

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: German|Biography|Literature|Featured|Poetry

Wentworth, Patricia

Miss Silver Intervenes a Miss Silver Mystery.

Hodder, 2006. P/b. A very good copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36294

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Detective|Mystery|Fiction|Literature|Featured

Wesley, Mary

Part of the Furniture

London, Vintage, 2008. P/b. 288pp. As new. Lovely bright copy unused. With no underlining and no tears. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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Book number: 36858

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Britain & Ireland|Featured

Wesley, Mary

A Sensible Life

London, Vintage, 2006. P/b. 384pp. As new. Lovely bright copy unused. With no underlining and no tears. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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Book number: 36857

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Britain & Ireland|Featured

Wesley, Mary

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

London, Vintage, 2007. P/b. 320pp. As new. Lovely bright copy unused. With no underlining and no tears. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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Book number: 36851

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Britain & Ireland|Featured

WOLFE, Reese

The Girl in Front of Cook's

London, Constable, 1957. vii+147pp Light wear with slight signs of use but a good, clean, tight copy. Dust-wrapper unclipped, repaired quite neatly with tape at edges. Used; Very Good Attractive illustrations of the period by James Hunt. Hardback.

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Book number: 33348

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|English|Illustrated

WOOD, Mrs Henry

Court Netherleigh. A Novel. Twenty-Sixth Thousand.

London, Richard Bentley, 1891. A good tight copy, small mark to upper board, just a little shaken but generally tight and clean. Original red cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt. 474[i]pp. One page publisher's list. Used; Good Court Netherleigh appeared first in Bentley's Miscellany and was first published in book-form in 1881. Touching note in contemporary hand to end-paper. "Wishing John Many Happy Returns of the Day from his old friend Shirley" 18/11/94 . Hardback.

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Book number: 36027

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Women|Literature|Featured|British