BUNIN, Ivan (Isabel Hapgood, translator)

The Village: Authorised Translation from the Russian by Isabel Hapgood.

london, Martin Secker, 1934. Reprint. Original black cloth with original publisher's printed label to spine. Spine a little sunned, 291 pp. A very nice, tight clean copy. First published in 1910 and hailed as the outstanding prose work of early 20th century Russia. First published in English in 1926. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin 1870-1953 [???´? ??????´???? ??´???] is considered one of the great masters of Russian language and was the first to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The translator Isabel Hapgood studied a number of Slavonic languages including Russian and Old Church Slavonic. She admired the Russian Orthodox Liturgy and choral singing. She also travelled through Russia and met Tolstoy. Peter Henry in Cornwall (1998), Terras (1985).

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Book number: 37939

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Featured|Russian|Translation|Slavonic

Byatt, A S

The Children's Book

London, Vintage, 2010. P/b. 624pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36864

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Britain & Ireland|Featured

CAMMAERTS, Emile (Morpurgo)

The Cloud and the Silver Lining

London, A. R.Mowbray & Co, 1952. A good, clean, tight copy. Author's presentation copy with inscription to f.e.p. Spine ends a little chipped else very good. Used; Very Good Émile Cammaerts (grandfather of Michael Morpurgo), CBE was a Belgian playwright and poet who wrote both in English and French. He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933. Hardback.

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Book number: 36271

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Christianity|Religion|Featured|Philosophy|Poetry

CANKAR, Ivan

The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights. [Hlapec Jernej in Njegova Pravica]. 'a Slovene Tolstoi'. Translated from the Slovene by Sidonie Yeras and H C Sewell Grant. With an Introduction by Janko Lavrin.

London, John Rodker, 1930. Small 8vo. a very nice bright copy of the first English edition, in original white dust-wrapper with colour-illustrated on-lay. Clean and tight. (It was re-issued later under Rodker's Pushkin Press imprint). Cover illustration possibly by Nora Fry Lavrin, prominent artist and wife of Janko Lavrin. Used; Very Good Ivan Cankar, founder of Modernism in Slovene literature. The publisher, one of the so-called "Whitechapel-Boys", John Rodker, was himself a modernist writer best known for publishing T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. He also worked on editions of Ulysses both in Paris and London. Rodker also started a number of publishing houses: The Ovid Press (1919), The Egoist Press (with Harriet Weaver, 1922), The Pushkin Press (1937) and perhaps most successfully Imago (1938), publishing Freud's works. Janko Lavrin, Slovene writer, spent much of his life in Britain as Professor of Slavonic Studies. Hardback.

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Book number: 36847

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Slovene|Literature|Yugoslav|Featured|Private Press|Modernism

CAPEK, Karel

Apocryphal Stories.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1949. A good, clean, tight copy. No dust-wrapper. Used; Very Good Translated from the Czech original Kniha apokryfu, Borovy, Prague, 1945. Hardback.

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Book number: 36618

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Special Collection|Featured|Czech|Literature

CHEKHOFF, A. P. [Chekhov]

Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard. The Russian Text of Three Plays.

Cambridge, At the University Press, 1947. A good copy in original price-clipped brown dust-wrapper printed in red. Clean and tight. War Economy paper and cloth. Upper fore-edge dusty. Myles Burnyeat's attractive ex-libris to f.e.p. Used; Very Good First published in this format in 1946. Produced by photo-offset from the Gosizdat, Leningrad 1935 edition. Myles Burnyeat's attractive ex-libris to f.e.p. Hardback.

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Book number: 36933

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Drama|Featured|Literature|Ex-Libris

CHEKHOV, A.. [M Derzhavin, T. Blazhina and V. Koltsov.

Proposal. Predlozhenie [Record]. A Jest in One Act. Shutka V Odnom Deistvin Ispolnyayut Artisty Teatra Imeni Vakhtangova. Nd 909-910(a) 33 1/3 Ob. V Min. "Made in the Ussr 9".

Melodiya?, n.d. Record of The Proposal in Russian on gramophone record. In very good condition in original plastic and decorated card sleeve. Distributed by M.K. (Mezhdurodnaya Kniga) with their imprint to sleeve. Probably manufactured by Melodiya.

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Book number: 37510

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Record|Featured|Russian|Vinyl

CHUKOVSKAYA, Lydia. Chukovskaia

Spusk Pod Vodu. (Going Under)

New York, Izadatelstvo imeni Chekhova, 1972. Used; Very Good First edition although written in 1949. Translated as 'Going Under' and written in the form of a memoir-like diary. The author's deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. She was herself the daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky. Chukovskaya was a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova. Paperback.

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Book number: 34172

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Akhmatova|Featured

CONRAD, Joseph and HUEFFER, Ford Madox [Ford] [Huffer].

The Nature of a Crime.

London, Duckworth & Co, 1924. A very nice bright copy: light red cloth in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Top edge stained green. Publisher's slip advertising "A Personal Remembrance" loosely laid-in. Usual light off-setting to endpapers. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 37165

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Novel|British|Featured

CURLE, Richard

Joseph Conrad's Last Day

London, Privately Printed, 1924. A very good copy in original grey printed wrappers. Limited to 100 copies. Clean and tight, with mild foxing to three pages. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36416

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Featured|Private Press|Limited Edition

CURTIS, J A. E. (BULGAKOV)

Manuscripts Don't Burn Mikhail Bulgakov. A Life in Letters and Diaries

London, Bloomsbury, 1991. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. With b/w photos, index. Used; Very Good A chronicle of Bulgakov's life using his and his wife's diaries with extracts from letters (to Stalin, Gorky, Zamyatin, his 2nd and 3rd wives amongst others) and the writer's own commentary. Hardback.

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Book number: 36842

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Avant Garde|Poetry|Literature|Featured|Russian|Emigre

Dalton-Brown, Sally

Pushkin's Eugene Onegin Critical Studies in Russian Literature.

Bristol Classical Press, 1997. P/b. vi + 145pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Almost as new except for very slight score on front cover. Unused. Used; Very Good All quotations are translated. Includes a survey of the context of the work and the author's own close commentary, along with full bibliography. Hardback.

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Book number: 35164

Catalogue: Russian Literature

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

DAY, Clarence

Yesterday Is to-Day. Drawings & Rhymes.

London, Boriswood, 1936. A very good copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Illustrated throughout. Dust-wrapper browning at edges and a little torn at spine, book in good condition with unobtrusive damp spotting to upper board. Used; Very Good Posthumous publication by Clarence Day, 1874 – 1935. Day was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work 'Life With Father.' . Hardback.

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Book number: 36643

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: English|Literature|Poetry|Cartoon|Featured|Special Collection

DJILAS, Milovan

The Eve of Battle, from the Opening Part of Montenegro. Translated by Kenneth Johnstone

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. A very nice bright copy. 23pp. Clean and tight. Bound in half red and half cream cloth. Cream cloth slightly worn else very good. Used; Very Good Limited edition, published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author and his publisher. The novel "Montenegro" was published the following year. Hardback.

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Book number: 35951

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Balkans|Featured|Montenegro|Limited Edition

DUDINTSEV, V..

Ne Khlebom Edinym. [Not by Bread Alone]. First Emigré Edition.

Munich München , TsOPE Izdatel'stvo Tsentral'nogo Obedineniya Politicheskikh Emigrantov iz SSSR, 1957. Original textured card covers printed in black. 296 pp. Text in Russian. As new, appears unused. Clean, tight and bright. Usual mild browning of paper. ?? ?????? ??????. First emigré edition. First published in instalments in Novy Mir, Dudinstev's landmark novel about an engineer opposed by bureaucrats as he seeks to implement his invention caused a sensation in the USSR. The tale became a literary symbol of the Khrushchev era although official reaction soon turned against the work and Dudintsev suffered years of poverty. In later years, however, accolade returned. In 2005, Mosfilm director Stanislav Govorukhin released the film based on the novel.

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Book number: 37701

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Emigré Literature|Russian|Slavonic|Literature|Featured