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

WRIGHT, Henry

Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely. Labour V. Capital.

London, George Allen, 1899. Small 8vo. in original green cloth, stamped in red and black with diagonal design. vi, 7-166pp. 2pp advertisements. A good, clean, tight copy. Very slightly cocked (slight lean), spine a little marked, some colour from upper board rubbed. Internally tight and clean. Used; Very Good Rare copy of this example of late Victorian dystopian fiction or science-fiction. The book, set in the fictional American city of Minosa where the booming economy is led by a small elite. The exploited workers form a 'Depopulation League', hoping to create a dearth of workers and shift the balance thereby making gold cheap and workers dear. With dark dystopian undertones and sharp observations on the value systems of bourgeois America. The author also published 'Mental Travel in Imagined Lands' (Trübner & Co. 1878). Late in life Wright published his autobiography: !Eighty-Six Years Young: Confessions and Conclusions (1938). The work contains useful comments on the publishing history and reception of both 'Mental Travels in Imagined Lands' and 'Depopulation'. Hardback.

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Book number: 37175

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Utopia|Literature|American|Featured|Science Fiction

Yarmolinsky, Avrahm

Turgenev : The Man, His Art and His Age

New York, Orion Press, 1959. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. With b/w illustrations. Clean and tight. Dust-wrapper chipped at top edge. Jacket shows self-portrait sketch of Turgenev. Used; Very Good With b/w illustrations. A comprehensive portrait of Turgenev as a man, as a writer and as a controversial figure in the gathering storm that was to destroy Imperial Russia many years after his death. Jacket shows self-portrait sketch of Turgenev. Hardback.

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Book number: 36695

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Turgenev|Featured|Biography

YULI, Daniel (Pseud. Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov., ).

Chelovek Iz Minapa. (the Man from Minap) 2-E Izdanie.

London, Flegon Press, 1966. Second (Flegon) edition. Light blue original wrappers, lettered in black and red, 32pp. Some grease marks to lower cover else in very good condition. Collectable; Very Good Soviet poet and short-story writer who was convicted with fellow writer Andrey D. Sinyavsky of anti-Soviet slander in a sensational 1966 trial that marked the beginning of literary repression under Leonid I. Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party. (Britannica) . Paperback.

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Book number: 29163

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Yuli Daniel|Featured|N Arzhak|Russian Literature|the Man from Minap|Emigré Literature|Sovietica

YULI, Daniel (Pseud. Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov., ).

This Is Moscow Speaking: And Other Stories. Translations by Stuart Hood, Harold Shukman, John Richardson. With a Foreword by Max Hayward.

London, Collins and Harvill, 1968. Hardback in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Portrait frontis. 159 pp. D.w. design by Yvonne Skargon. In very good condition, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper back just a little marked. Yuli Daniel 1925-1988 ???? ???????? ??????? wrote under the names Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov. Soviet poet and short-story writer, Daniel was convicted with Sinyavsky of anti-Soviet slander in a notorious 1966 trial that marked the beginning of literary repression under Brezhnev. These stories were first published in France by Sedimo under the title 'Ici Moscou'.

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Book number: 37984

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Translation|Russian|Literature|Featured|Sovietica

ZAMYATIN, Evgenii. Zamiatin

My (MI') [We]. First Thus.

New York, Inter-Language Literary Associates , 1967. Original printed wrappers, ix+223pp. Annenkov portrait frontis. A little sprung. Covers slightly darkened and somewhat warped from storage. Internally text clean, binding tight, no loose pages, no tears. Generally good. Cover design by Evgenin Zhiglevich. Cornwell, 909.

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Book number: 38242

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Russian Avant-Garde|Science Fiction|Featured|Literature|

ZHUKOVSKY, Vasily Zhukovskii

Polnoye Sobraniye Sochineniy V a Zhukovskago. Pod Redaktsiye... A S Arkhangelyskago. V Trekh Tomakh. Complete Works of V Z Zhukovsky, Complete in Three Volumes.

S Peterburg, A F Marks Marx, 1906. A very nice 3 volume set in excellent condition; bright, clean and tight. Original pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt and black, marbled edges, floral design to end-papers, silk markers. Tissue protected frontis. to volume one. Heavy item,just over 3 Kg packed. May require extra payment for delivery. A very nice set with just a small amount of loss of colour to lower edge volume one and minor sunning. Foremost poet of the early nineteenth century, Zhukovsky is generally regarded as having introduced the Romantic Movement to Russia. Hardback.

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Book number: 36066

Catalogue: Russian Literature

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ZINOVIEV, Alexander (trans. by Michael Kirkwood)

The Madhouse a Novel

London, Gollancz, 1986. As new in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. 411pp. Used; Like New Translation of 'Zheltyi dom' from the the Russian by Michael Kirkwood. " The Madhouse concerns the thoughts and fate of an intellectual misfit in Russia. The 'madhouse' is a yellow building in Moscow, housing 'the most undistinguished, untalented institution in the Soviet Union – the Institute of Ideology of the Academy of Sciences'. Dust-wrapper cover design by Paul Janssens. Hardback.

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Book number: 36840

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Special Collection|Literature|Soviet|Book-Cover Design|Featured