BRENNER, Vladimir

Russia in the Name of God: Translated from the Original German (Das Gottestheater) by Eric Law-Gisiko.

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1931. First English edition. In original green cloth and dust-wrapper designed by Lindholm. vi+269 pp In very good condition, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper a little darkened and showing a little wear to spine ends and corners. Published the following year in New York.

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Book number: 37915

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian Revolution|Religion|Featured|Literature|Russia|Translation

Briggs, A. D. P.

Alexander Pushkin a Critical Study

Bristol Classical Press, 1991. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Almost as new except for slight yellowing of pages. Used; Very Good A clear, detailed account of all Pushkin's poetry, heroic, sentimental, bawdy and humorous, as well as a briefer consideration of his major prose works. Accessible to those with no Russian, yet detailed and authoritative enough for the specialist. Paperback.

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Book number: 35157

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Keywords: Literature|Russian|Poetry|Featured|Pushkin

Briggs, A. D. P.

Alexander Pushkin a Critical Study

Beckenham, Croom Helm; Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. As new in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Used; Like New A clear and accessible account of all Pushkin's poetry, followed by a briefer consideration of his major prose works. Hardback.

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Book number: 36701

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Keywords: Literature|Pushkin|Literary Criticism|Featured|Russian

BROWN, Bob (Robert Carlton Brown) (Eric Estorick)

Demonics Association Copy: Eric Ely Estorick

Cagnes-sur-Mer, Roving Eye Press, 1931. A good copy generally. Original wrappers, title printed black with publisher's imprint to lower cover. Upper cover detached and a little chipped but present. Paint stripe to lower cover. Backstrip chipped. Scarce. Used; Good Eric Ely Estorick's (American modern and futurist art collector and founder of the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art) name in ink to upper cover. Presentation copy from the author for: "E.E.E. from B. B. recalling J. Jones [poet] and other alphabetical asterisks, N.Y. 1932". This collection, published by his own press is widely accepted as some of Brown's best verse. Published in Cagnes-sur-Mer, where the author first conceived his Reading Machine. Roving Eye was initially founded in the late 1920's by Bob Brown and co-managed by his wife Rose, was part of a larger literary and artistic movement of small presses that served the modernist avant-garde. Those presses included Hogarth Press, Ovid Press, Shakespeare & Company, Black Sun Press, Hours Press, and Contact Press, among others. Its circle of readers included Kay Boyle, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and Langston Hughes. Paperback.

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Book number: 37242

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Poetry|Literature|American|Featured|Special Collection|Avant Garde|Surrealism|Private Press|Futurism

BRUSSOF, Valery (Briusov, Bryusov) (Ed. Stephen Graham).

The Republic of the Southern Cross: And Other Stories. With an Introduction by Stephen Graham. Constable's Russian Library.

London, Constable, 1918. First British edition. A very nice bright copy in original green cloth, gilt lettered spine and original unclipped printed dust-wrapper. xiii[iii]+162 pp. In very good condition, tight and clean. Dust-wrapper a little chipped at edges. Mild foxing to fore-edges. One of some six volumes published by Constable in their Russian series between 1915 and 1918. Short stories by some of the most avant-garde and important literary figures of the time collected and edited by Stephen Graham, traveller, author and Russophile. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov ????´??? ?´???????? ???´??? 1873-1924. Leading literary figure in pre-revolutionary Russia and "acknowledged organising genius of Russian Symbolist movement". Founder of Skorpion. Grossman in Cornwall (1998).

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Book number: 37941

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Translation|Featured|Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Slavonic

BRUSSOF, Valery (Briusov, Bryusov) (Ed. Stephen Graham).

The Republic of the Southern Cross: And Other Stories. With an Introduction by Stephen Graham. Constable's Russian Library.

London, Constable, 1918. First British edition. A very nice bright copy in original green cloth, gilt lettered spine and original unclipped printed dust-wrapper. xiii[iii]+162 pp. In very good condition, tight and clean. Dust-wrapper a little chipped with small tears to upper corner and spine. Mild foxing to fore-edges. One of some six volumes published by Constable in their Russian series between 1915 and 1918. Short stories by some of the most avant-garde and important literary figures of the time collected and edited by Stephen Graham, traveller, author and Russophile. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov ????´??? ?´???????? ???´??? 1873-1924. Leading literary figure in pre-revolutionary Russia and "acknowledged organising genius of Russian Symbolist movement". Founder of Skorpion. Grossman in Cornwall (1998).

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Book number: 37942

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Keywords: Literature|Translation|Featured|Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Slavonic

BULATOVIC, Miodrag

Hero on a Donkey. Translated by E.D. Goy. [Heroj Na Magarcu]

London, Secker & Warburg, 1966. A good copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. 223pp. Ex university library with usual labels to endpapers and shelf number to spine, tear to rear dust-wrapper. Jacket design by Reg Perks. Used; Very Good Miodrag Bulatovic was a Montenegrin Serb writer, novelist and playwright in former Yugoslavia . Hardback.

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Book number: 37211

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Slav|Featured|Montenegrin|Yugoslav

BULATOVIC, Miodrag

The Red Cockerel. Translated by E.D. Goy. [Crveni Petao Leti Prema Nebu].

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1962. A good copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. 223pp. Ex university library with usual labels to end-papers and shelf number. Internally sound, no stamps. Dust-wrapper showing a little wear, with small tear near spine head. Used; Very Good Miodrag Bulatovic was a Montenegrin Serb writer, novelist and playwright in former Yugoslavia. Striking dust-wrapper design by Michael Hoare. Hardback.

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Book number: 37207

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Slav|Featured|Montenegrin|Yugoslavia

BULGAKOV, Mikhail, (trans. Proffer)

Diaboliad and Other Stories Translated from the Russian by Carl Proffer. With an Introduction by Julie Curtis.

London, Harvill, 1991. P/b. 192pp. A very nice bright copy indeed. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good First published in 1925, this collection of five irreverent and satirical stories created a furore in Moscow. Full of invention they cover a stylistic range from grotesque satire to science fiction and exuberant fantasy. Cover illustration by Georgi Yudin. Paperback.

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Book number: 35301

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Keywords: Literature|Russian|Bulgakov|Featured|Erotica|Science Fiction

BULGAKOV, M.

Diavoliada Povest' O Tom, Kak Bliznetsy Pogubili Deloproizvoditelia [Diaboliad and Other Stories Text in Russian].

London, Flegon Press, 1970. P/b. 88pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Very small chip to spine tail, edges a little rubbed, internally very clean and crisp. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 34385

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Bulgakov

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

The Master and Margarita. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. First U.K. Paperback Edition.

London, Collins and Harvill Press. Fontana, 1968. Paperback, featuring same 'cat' illustration as 1967 Harper and Row hardback US first. 416pp. A good, tight copy. Clean no tears. Usual browning to paper, book a little cocked. 1967 Michael Glenny translation which includes censored material previously only available as 'samizdat'. By 1989 a revised full Russian text was published in Kiev and it is that text which has been used for more modern translations.

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Book number: 38120

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Avant Garde|Bulgakov|Featured

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Master I Margarita: Roman. [First Book Edition].

Paris Parizh, YMCA-Press, 1967. Original grey wrappers printed in red and black, 219pp. In very good condition, clean and tight. Two light creases to upper cover, small mark above author name, faint sunning to lower cover, fore-edges somewhat darkened, generally very mild signs of use. Important printing of this significant work. Acheve d'imprimer le trente juin 1967 par Joseph Floch maitre-imprimeur a Mayenne no.2850.

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Book number: 38235

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Featured|Emigré|Avant Garde|Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Emigré Literature

BULGAKOV, M.

Rokovye Jajca [Fatal Eggs Text in Russian].

London, Flegon Press, 1970. P/b. 109pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Edges a little rubbed, internally very clean and crisp. Green 'Foyles' label inside. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 34386

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Bulgakov

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Sobache Serdtse: [Heart of a Dog]. First Edition.

London, YMCA-Press, 1969. Small 8vo.13.5x18cm. original card covers printed in red and black (design by Yuri Annekov), 159pp. portrait frontis. A good copy. 3 preliminary pages and frontis. starting otherwise tight. Upper cover very good but lower cover stained not affecting inside. A short novel first written in 1925 at the height of the NEP (Lenin's State Capitalism) period but not published officially in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of Bulgakov's most outstanding works. (Oblozhka raboti Yu. P. Annenkova).

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Book number: 38236

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Emigré Literature|Russian Avant Garde

BUNIN, I. A..

Temnye Allei (Dark Avenues Alleys, Shadowed Paths)

Paris Parizh, La Presse Française et Etrangère, Zeluck, 1946. Original paper covers printed in red and black, 324pp. Spine heads chipped, paper peeling a little from spine head, lower corner chipped, usual yellowing of paper. However, clean and tight, one or two unobtrusive pencil marks, occasional pages as yet unopened. A very good copy of this first edition. Cover design by B. T. Ross'r(?). Used; Very Good Paris edition and first full version of 27 stories. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). 'Temnye Allei' (stories characterised by dark, erotic liaisons and love affairs) comprising only 11 stories was published in New York in 1943. Translated as 'Dark Avenues and Other Stories' by Richard Hare 1949, and as 'Shadowed Paths', 1958 by Olga Shatse. Paperback.

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Book number: 33786

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Avant-Garde|Featured