Mancosu, Paolo (Pasternak)

Inside the Zhivago Storm. The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak's Masterpiece.

Milan Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013. As new. Clean, bright and tight in original illustrated paper-covered boards. Unused. Illustrated, with index and notes. See dworskibooks for copies of the original Feltrinelli Zhivago. Used; Like New Covers all the main editions of Pasternak's Dr Zhivago including Feltrinelli's Italian and Russian editions, the Mouton and the CIA editions, Flegon and much else. With copy of 'Dr Zhivago's' original Ampelio Tettamanti dust-wrapper illustration to upper-cover. Hardback.

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Book number: 36913

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Literary Criticism|Pasternak|Emigre|Special Collection

MANDELSHTAM, Osip Mandel'stam (Clarence Brown)

The Noise of Time. Selected Prose. Translated from the Russian and with Critical Essays by Clarence Brown. European Classics.

Northwestern University Press, 2002. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good P/b. 224pp. Collected prose works. Cover image Lyonel Feiningen. Paperback.

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Book number: 37003

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russia|Literature|Featured

MARCHENKO, Anatoly

Moi Pokazaniya: [My Testimony]. Vtoroye Izdaniye. Oblozhka Raboty A. Rusaka. Second Edition.

Frankfurt/Main, Posev, 1973. Small 8vo. original printed card covers, 421 pp. 11 x 16.5 cm. A very nice bright copy. Very light signs of age. Clean and tight. Light browning of upper cover. First published outside samizdat in Paris and in Frankfurt in 1969. Important work by Soviet dissident and human rights campaigner who died age 48 in 1986 while in prison. Marchenko gained international fame in 1969 through this book; a 1966 autobiographical account about his incarceration in Soviet labour camps and prisons.

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Book number: 37729

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Emigré Literature|Slavonic

McCall Smith, Alexander

44 Scotland Street.

Abacus, 2005. P/b. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36298

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Fiction|Humour|Featured|British|Scottish

McCall Smith, Alexander

Love over Scotland. A 44 Scotland Street Story.

Abacus, 2007. P/b. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36297

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Fiction|Humour|Featured|British|Scottish

McMILLIN, Arnold.

Writing in a Cold Climate [Belarus]: Belarusian Literature from 1970s to the Present Day.

London, Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2010. Small fat 8vo. hardback. xxi+1129pp. Barely used. In very good condition, clean and tight. Belarusian literature.. flourishes in the face of unfavourable domestic political conditions, deserves to be far better-known in the West. It.. at its best can compare with the literature of its Slav neighbours, including Russia. The present monograph, the first of its kind, attempts to describe and assess the work of nearly two hundred writers and literary groups, ranging over poetry, prose and drama. [Text in English].

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Book number: 38313

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Belarus |Soviet Union|Sovietica|Literature|Slavs|Slavonic|Featured

MEYER, Conrad Ferdinand

Gedichte. Siebenundsiebzigste Auflage.

Leipzig, H. Haessel Verlag, 1916. 77th printing. Small 8vo. attractively bound in dark green cloth ruled and decorated in gilt. Floral endpapers, silk tie, marbled fore-edges, xv+401 pp. Lengthy WWI-interest inscription in neat hand to f.e.p. Dated Engadine 1917. A very nice bright tight copy. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825 - 1898) Swiss poet and historical novelist. Known for narrative ballads such as "Die Füße im Feuer".

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Book number: 38074

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Swiss|Featured|Literature|German|Central Europe

MEYER, Conrad Ferdinand

Zwei Novellen: Plautus IM Nonnenkloster. Gustav Adolfs Page. Achte Auglage.

Leipzig, H. Haessel Verlag, 1913. 8th edition. Small 8vo. attractively bound in red cloth ruled and decorated in gilt. Floral endpapers, silk tie, marbled fore-edges, 142 pp. A very nice bright tight copy. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825 - 1898) Swiss poet and historical novelist. Known for narrative ballads such as "Die Füße im Feuer".

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Book number: 38056

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Central Europe|Featured|Literature|Swiss

MOORCOCK, Michael

The Secret of the Runestaff. The History of the Runestaff: Volume Four.

New York, Lancer Books, 1969. A good, clean, tight copy. Paper a little browned, old price in biro neatly to fep. Used; Very Good Last book in this acclaimed Science Fiction series. Paperback.

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Book number: 37194

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Science Fiction|Literature|Featured|Scifi

MÖRIKE, Eduard (1804-1875).

Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein Hutzelmaennlein: Märchen. Maerchen. Zweite Auflage.

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart'sche, 1855. Second edition. First published the same year. Small 8vo. (10 x 14.5) original buckram stamped in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. iv+168 pp. Vocabulary in back. A very good, tight copy. Spine ends just a little worn, some darkening to cloth edges. A little damp spotting to some leaves, very minor signs of use. With "Anhang Worterklärungen u. A." at end. German Lutheran pastor, Romantic poet and novelist. His work was greatly praised by Wittgenstein who recommended him to Bertrand Russell.

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Book number: 38069

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Featured|German|Folk|Philology

Nabokov, Vladimir

Bend Sinister. A Corgi Book.

London, Corgi Transworld Publishers, 1962. A good, clean, tight copy. Usual browning to paper, spine sunned. Used; Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 37115

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Avant Garde|Book-Cover Design|Featured

Nabokov, Vladimir

Despair.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1966. A very good copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper (designed by John Mayhew). Very clean and tight. Used; Very Good A somewhat briefer version of this novel originally appeared in Playboy in the United States. The Russian text of Despair (Otchayanie) was written in 1932 in Berlin and first published in book form in 1936. As described in Nabokov's own foreword to the book after a number of formats, this version was completed in 1965. Reprinted by Photolithography in Great Britain by Bookprint Limited, Kingswood and Crawley. Price 25s on dust-wrapper. Hardback.

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Book number: 37088

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Featured|Russian|Literature|Emigré

Nabokov, Vladimir

The Enchanter. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

London, Picador Pan Books, 1987. A good, clean tight copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Paper rather browned as usual. Used; Very Good The Enchanter is translated from Vladimir Nabokov's unpublished work entitled 'Volshebnik'. Hardcover.

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Book number: 37119

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Avant Garde|Book-Cover Design|Featured|Literature|Russian

Nabokov, Vladimir

King Queen Knave Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in Collaboration with the Author.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1968. A very good bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. D.w. spine a little faded. Used; Very Good Philippe Halsman photograph to front. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Hardback.

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Book number: 37098

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Featured|Russian|Literature

NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Lolita: Roman. Perevel S Angliiskogo Avtor. ['Lolita' Translated Into Russian by the Author]. First Thus.

New York, Phaedra, 1967. Tall paperback, covers in black and white featuring multi-coloured title. 14x21cm. 304pp. Author's portrait photo to lower cover. Signs of use, covers somewhat softened, spine creased, text clean, book tight. Nabokov's own translation into Russian of his famously controversial novel.

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Book number: 38239

Catalogue: Russian Literature

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