DUDINTSEV, Vladimir

Not by Bread Alone: Translated from the Russian by Dr. Edith Bone.

London, Hutchinson, 1957. First English edition. vii[[i]+447 pp. epilogue with facsimile signature, in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Loosely enclosed 3 contemporary review cuttings (C. P. Snow, V. S. Pritchett in New Statesman, and Richard Newnham in Truth). In very good condition. Clean, bright and tight. 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: 37901

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Soviet Union|Russian|Literature|Translation|Featured|Sovietica

DUKELSKY DUKEL'SKII, Benedikt. (Boris Grosser)

Dusha V Zavyetnoi Lire. Stihotvoreniya.

Paris, N.p, 1927. Original wrappers with original protective cellophane to wrappers, V. G. Used; Very Good Cover design by Boris Grosser. Paperback.

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Book number: 35740

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Books in (Slavonic) [Slavic] Literature

DURRELL, Lawrence

Mountolive. A Novel.

London, Faber and Faber, 1958. A good copy in very good unclipped dust-wrapper. Small snag to dust-wrapper at spine head, just a little shaken, inner joint cracked but otherwise tight, very clean. Used; Good Third book in the Alexandria Quartet. Cover design by Berthold Wolpe. Hardback.

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Book number: 36518

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|British|Featured|English

EFREMOV Yefremov, I[van] A[ntonovich].

A Meeting over Tuscarora: And Other Adventure Stories. Translated from the Russian by M. And N. Nicholas.

London, Hutchinson & Co, [1946]. First English edition. Small 8vo. in original unclipped dust-wrapper illustrated by ING, 124 pp. Black 6/- price label over original NET price. A very nice bright, clean copy in very good condition despite war quality paper, 2 small closed tears to d.w. Hutchinson "Books of Russian Interest" book list to back. Ivan Antonovich Yefremov. ???´? ????´????? ????´??? 1908 – 1972, paleontologist and science fiction writer. He introduced the term taphonomy for the study of fossilization patterns.

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Book number: 37912

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Translation|Russian|Russia|Soviet Union|Featured|Literature|Science Fiction

EHRENBERG, Ilya Erenburg (Vera Willoughby)

The Love of Jeanne Ney. Translated from the Russian by Helen Chrouschoff Matheson.

London, Peter Davies, 1929. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Very slightly cocked, dust-wrapper age-darkened in parts, fore-edges a little dusty, else excellent copy of this scarce edition in equally very scarce Art Deco decorated dust-wrapper. by the Hungarian Véra Willoughby. Used; Very Good Dust-wrapper by the Hungarian Véra Willoughby. Printed at the Bowering Press Plymouth. Translated into English from the Russian Lubov Jeanne Ney (Liubov Zhanny Nei). Willoughby came to London and studied at the Slade. She designed posters for the Underground Group 1928-1935. Unconventionally, she had an affair with her publisher Peter Davies, despite being some 27 years his elder. Hardback.

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Book number: 36778

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Special Collection|Russian Avant Garde|Book-Cover Design|Art Deco|Underground Group

EHRENBURG, Ilya

Chekhov, Stendahl, and Other Essays Selected and with an Introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury.

New York, Knopf, 1963. Original blue cloth in its original dust-wrapper designed by Anita Karl and Vincent Torre. First U.S. edition. With usual Borzoi logo in red to lower board. In good condition, clean and tight but upper board a touch warped. Dust-wrapper a little age-darkened, and chipped at all corners. A selection of eleven critical essays on both contemporary and traditional European literary and artistic figures by the leading critic of Soviet cultural standards. Translated from the Russian by Anna Bostock, Yvonne Kapp, and Tatiana Shebunina.

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Book number: 37916

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Translation|Russian|Literature|Featured

ESENIN. YESENIN. Sergei

Izbrannyy Yesenin Stikhi I Poemy [Selected Verse and Poems]

Riga, Gramatu Draugs, 1928. A good copy, clean and tight. Very minor chipping to spine ends, usual browning to paper. Used; Very Good The poet Sergei Yesenin (Esenin), 'pastoral-angel' 'tavern-rake' and bard of the Soviet Empire lived a short and turbulent life but posthumously became one of the most widely-read of 20th century Russian poets. He was a founder member of the avant-garde "Imaginist" group. Branded both decadent and hooligan, anti-Soviet and Soviet hero, he was vulnerable, sinful and all too human. Tantalisingly, he was married briefly to Isadora Duncan. Esenin is described as essentially 'Russian'; he is the peasant embodying tragic pathos and the forlorn dream of a rural idyll (McVay 1998). He killed himself in a Leningrad Hotel in 1925 after a short-spanned but meteoric literary career. Hélène Heinsdorf's decorated ex-libris, pencilled note below (Could be the Polish journalist Helene Heinsdorf-Lewinson? See Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.). Paperback.

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Book number: 36394

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Poetry|Avant Garde|Featured|Imaginist|Russian|Literature|Poetry|Featured|Emigre|Ex-Libris

ESENIN. YESENIN. F D Konstantinov (engrav.), I G Miamlin (intro)

Sergei Esenin. Gravyuri F D Konstantinova 11 Reproduktsii.

Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. Folder containing 11 (10 loose, one to cover) reproductions (complete) of engravings by F D Konstantinov illustrating lines from Esenin's poetry with 8pp stapled text. Portrait of Esenin to upper cover by same artist. Edges just a little damp marked with very light yellowing of covers. Used; Very Good The poet Sergei Yesenin (Esenin), 'pastoral-angel' 'tavern-rake' and bard of the Soviet Empire lived a short and turbulent life but posthumously became one of the most widely-read of 20th century Russian poets. He was a founder member of the avant-garde "Imaginist" group. He was married briefly to Isadora Duncan. Esenin is described as essentially 'Russian'; he is the peasant embodying tragic pathos and the forlorn dream of a rural idyll (McVay 1998). He killed himself in a Leningrad Hotel in 1925 after a short-spanned but meteoric literary career. Hardback.

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Book number: 34313

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Art|Russian|Poetry|Avant Garde|Featured

EVTUSHENKO, Evgenii. YEVTUSHENKO.

Shosse Entuziastov [Original Russian First Edition of Highway of the Enthusiasts]

Moscow Moskva, Moskovskii rabochii, 1956. Original 'Soviet' cloth decorated in black, lettered in white, title page in red and black. 11x14.5cm. A good tight copy, boards a little age darkened and just very slightly warped. Used; Very Good Evtushenko's presentation copy (signed by author) dated 1960. Hardback.

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Book number: 37124

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Soviet|Ussr|Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Poetry

FADEYEV, A..

The Nineteen 19: [Razgrom]. Translated by R.D. Charques. First English 1s. Edition.

London, Martin Lawrence, 1929. Original illustrated non-removable (as published) dust-wrapper over card covers, 293 pp. A very good, clean, tight copy. Small tear to spine tail with minor loss, slight chipping to lower edge. ??????´??? ??????´??????? ????´??. Alexander Fadeyev (1901 - 1956). This cheap edition published in same year as hardback edition.

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Book number: 37884

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Featured|Literature|Russian|Soviet Union|Translation|Russia|Russian Revolution|Sovietica

FIELDING, Henry

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great the Novel Library.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1947. A good, clean, tight copy in attractively patterned original cover. Spine faded and cover edges slightly bumped but otherwise very good. Used; Very Good Founded on the life of a notorious thief, informer and receiver of stolen goods, this is a sustained essay in irony superimposed upon a realistic background of Georgian criminal life. Hardback.

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Book number: 35532

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|English|Featured|Fielding

FYODROV, Michael

Matushka: A Novel of 18th Century Russia.

London, Jarrolds, 1946. First English edition. Small 8vo. in original unclipped illustrated dust-wrapper 216 pp. Black 6/- price label over original NET price. A very nice bright, clean copy in very good condition despite war quality paper, d.w. a little chipped at edges.

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Book number: 37913

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Translation|Russian|Literature|Featured|Russia

GALLICO, Paul (David Knight illus.)

Love of Seven Dolls.

London, Michael Joseph, 1954. Attractive David Knight colour illustrated cloth-backed boards and uniform unclipped dust-wrapper. David Knight's two-tone illustrated endpapers, half-title and title page, head and tail pieces. Small 8vo. 103 pp. In very good condition, clean, bright and tight. Dust-wrapper neatly repaired inside, small tears to d.w. spine head and tail. owner name neatly inside. Prolific and popular writer in his time, Paul Gallico (New York 1897- Antibes 1976) is now best remembered as the author of the Snow Goose and the Poseidon Adventure. Illustrator David Knight (1923-1982) noted for his linear pen and ink work worked both as a book and magazine illustrator and also as an architectural draughtsman. "Knight has a gift for suggesting the atmosphere of architecture and in particular that charm of the irregularity of contrasting elements.." Usherwood, 1961.

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Book number: 38018

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Fiction|Book-Cover-Design|Featured|Literature|Americas|Illustrated

GALLICO, Paul

Mrs Harris Goes to New York.

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. Small 8vo. 191 pp. in original unclipped illustrated dust-wrapper. In very good condition, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper in very good condition by a little age darkened with small closed tear to back. Prolific and popular writer in his time, Paul Gallico (New York 1897- Antibes 1976) is now best remembered as the author of the Snow Goose and the Poseidon Adventure. Usherwood, 1961.

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Book number: 38019

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Fiction|Book-Cover-Design|Featured|Literature|Americas|Illustrated

GARNETT, David

A Man in the Zoo. Illustrated with Wood Engravings.

London, Chatto & Windus. Printed by the Westminster Press, 1924. Small 8vo. original publisher's paper-covered boards, paper-title label to spine, t.e.g. in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Small hole to dust-wrapper spine and chipping to edges. Book itself in excellent condition. Spare spine label neatly tipped-in in back. Used; Very Good ".. Married in 1921 to Rachel Marshall (illustrator), Frances (Partridge's) sister, he (David Garnett) set about prosecuting an emotional life that consisted of repeatedly betraying his wife, while stoutly informing her that these satellite relationships weren't important, and then deploring her resentful silences ("You might reflect," he informed her in 1928 "that I'm extremely lonely & continually tormenting myself".) Among other embarrassments, he was responsible for the novel A Man in the Zoo (1924), enhanced with Ray's elegant woodcuts, but dedicated to two other women of the moment. (DJTaylor, 2015) . Hardback.

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Book number: 37176

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Illustrated|Featured|English|Literature|Bloomsbury