ROSSLYN, Wendy (Akhmatova)

The Prince, the Fool and the Nunnery. Religion and Love... The Religious Theme in the Early Poetry of Anna Akhmatova.

U.K, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1986. New and unused. 264pp. With references and index. New From the author's own library. Hardback.

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Book number: 34163

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Akhmatova|Poetry|Russian|Literature|Featured|Avant Garde|Theology

RYBAKOV, Vladimir. (Trans. J.R. Dorrell)

The Burden Flamingo.

London, Flamingo, 1986. A good, clean, very tight hardback copy. 170pp. Paper just a little browned. Reprint. Used; Very Good Novella concerning a soldier serving in the Soviet army on the Siberian border between the USSR and China, who was born in France to émigré parents. It offers a frightening insight into the day to day life of 1980s Soviet military. Hardback.

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Book number: 35249

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Fiction|Military|Soviet Union

SAYERS, Dorothy L..

In the Teeth of the Evidence.

New English Library, Times Mirror, 1973. A good, clean tight copy. Spine faded with light creasing, pages a little browned. Used; Good First issued by NEL in 1969. Paperback.

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Book number: 36256

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: English|Detective|Literature|Fiction|Featured

SHAKESPEARE, William (Ed. Professor Henry Morely).

As You Like It. With the Tale of Gamelyn. Cassell's National Library.

London etc.. Cassell & Company, 1889. Small 8vo. (9.5x14.5) original red cloth, decorated in black with gilt stamped title. Advertisements to lower board and endpapers, publisher's list in back 192+6 pp. In good condition, clean and tight. With light signs of use only.

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Book number: 38070

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Britain|Literature|Featured|Ephemera

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

The Don Flows Home to the Sea [Tikhi Don]. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry.

London, Putnam, 1940. First UK edition. First impression. Original black cloth. viii+861pp. in original unclipped dust-wrapper. In removable plastic protective sleeve. A good copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper a little age-browned and chipped, slight off-setting to endpapers. Generally a very good, tight, clean copy. English translation of the final volume of Sholokhov's celebrated vivid novel on the life of the Don Cossacks before and during WWI, Revolution and Civil War. Often considered one of the most significant works of the 20th century and has from publication remained immensely popular. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 38540

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

Harvest on the Don. A Sequel to Virgin Soil Upturned. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens. First U.K. Edition.

London, Putnam, 1960. 8vo. black cloth, original unclipped dust-wrapper in black and red. 399pp. First UK edition. A very good bright copy in very good bright unclipped dust-wrapper. Mild foxing to dust-wrapper at back, spine just a tad faded else excellent. English translation of Part II of Sholokhov's celebrated second novel on the collectivisation of agriculture in a Don Cossack village. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 37325

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

Harvest on the Don. A Sequel to Virgin Soil Upturned. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens. 'Virgin Soil Upturned. Volume II. '

London, Putnam, 1960. First UK edition. 8vo. black cloth, original unclipped dust-wrapper in black and red. 399pp. A very good bright copy in very good bright unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. English translation of Part II of Sholokhov's celebrated second novel on the collectivisation of agriculture in a Don Cossack village. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 38211

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

One Man's Destiny: And Other Stories, Articles, and Sketches 1923-1963.

London, Putnam, 1967. First UK edition. 8vo. black cloth, original unclipped dust-wrapper in black and green. 271pp. Ex Carmel College Library with its neat bookplate to f.e.p and title page verso. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 38541

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

And Quiet Flows the Don Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry.

London, Putnam, 1934. Fourth impression May 1934. (First impression in UK was April 1934). No dust wrapper. Original black cloth. x+755pp. In good condition, with usual minor rubbing of edges, darkening of fore-edges. Tight and clean. English translation of the first three volumes of Sholokhov's celebrated vivid novel on the life of the Don Cossacks before and during WWI, Revolution and Civil War. Often considered one of the most significant works of the 20th century and has from publication remained immensely popular. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 37324

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

And Quiet Flows the Don Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry.

London, Putnam, 1934. Fourth impression May 1934. (First impression in UK was April 1934). In rare original dust-wrapper. Original black cloth. x+755pp. W. P. Sommerville's copy with his name in pencil to paste-down. In good condition, internally clean but very slightly shaken. Minor damp spotting to spine edges and fore-edges. Dust-wrapper softened with a few closed tears and minor marking. English translation of the first three volumes of Sholokhov's celebrated vivid novel on the life of the Don Cossacks before and during WWI, Revolution and Civil War. Often considered one of the most significant works of the 20th century and has from publication remained immensely popular. Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 37327

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov

Virgin Soil Upturned. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry.

London, Putnam, 1938. Early reprint of first UK edition, May 1938. Cloth darkened at spine ends else bright. Dust-wrapper fair - somewhat softened with some chipping and tears to spine ends. vii[ii]+488pp. In good condition with slightly worn dust-wrapper. The first part of Sholokhov's celebrated second novel on the collectivisation of agriculture in a Don Cossack village. First published in Russian in 1932 as 'Podnyataya Tselina'. The second part (Harvest on the Don) was published in 1960. 1936 dust-wrapper illustration by [E.]A. Verpilleux (husband of Carolyn Putnam). Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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Book number: 37323

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Russia|Literature|Featured|Ukraine|Don Cossack|Stalin

SHVARTS, Yevgeniy; (Avril Pyman, Kirill Sokolov)

Three Plays with an Introduction and Notes. Pergamon Oxford Russian Series.

Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1972. A very nice bright copy. P/b. xlviii + 234pp. Clean and tight. Slight fading to cover but internally very good. Used; Very Good Text of plays in Russian, with introduction and notes in English by Avril Pyman who has written extensively on Russian literature. Includes glossary. The highly original engraver and illustrator, Kirill Sokolov and husband of Avril Pyman, was much celebrated in Russia. When he moved to the U.K. in 1974, became internationally recognised. Paperback.

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Book number: 35456

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Featured|Translation|Illustrated

SIDGWICK, Christopher.

Manhunt in Dalmatia.

London, Peter Davies, 1959. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Signed by author with name to title page. Used; Very Good Recommended thriller set in war-time Yugoslavia. Sidgwick, born in 1915, was the author of travel books and guides to Yugoslavia and Greece as well as other works. He spent time in Germany in 1936 and wrote on his experiences there. See Horton 529. Hardcover.

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Book number: 32687

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Balkans|Yugoslavia|World War II|Partisans|Featured|Novel

SILKIN, Jon, SMITH, Ken (publishers)

Stand: Quarterly 7, No 4. Incorporating Three Quarterly and the North East Review.

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1965. Literary journal. P/b landscape format, 80pp. In very good condition. Spine tail a little chipped. With graphics by Ron Swift. Contributors include Raymond Williams, Raymond Hargreaves, Antony Wood translation of Isaac Babel and others. "In its 50 plus years, Stand has published early work by many writers who have gone on to become established figures - Ken Smith, Tony Harrison, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Dunn, Jeffrey Wainwright and George MacBeth are just a few. The magazine has also played a major role in bringing the work of Russian and East European writers in translation to an English-speaking audience." Stand website .

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Book number: 37381

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Magazine|Journal|Featured|Avant Garde|Literature|Britain|English

Sillitoe, Alan

The Death of William Posters

London, Pan, 1967. Paperback. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Usual darkening of paper with age and spine faded else very good. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36458

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|English|Featured