CHACHIKOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.

Chai-Khane.

Moscow, Moscow Guild of Poets, 1927.

First edition of a collection which highlights the poet’s interest in the Caucasus and other (non-Russian) parts of the Soviet Union, often employing foreign words in the poems.

£100

GLOBA, Andrei Pavlovich.

Korabli izdaleka [Ships from Afar].

Moscow & Petrograd, 1922.

First edition, an early collection by Globa (1888–1964), a popular Soviet writer whose poetry became well known as song lyrics.

£100

GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.

Farforovyi pavil’on. Kitaiskie Stikhi [The Porcelain Pavilion. Chinese poems].

Petrograd, “Mysl’”, 1922.

Second edition (first 1918) of Gumilev’s paraphrases of Chinese and Indonesian lyrics, published the year after his death.

£100

KOROLEVICH, Vladimir.

Sady Dofina [The Gardens of the Dauphin].

Moscow, [“Sinema”,] 1918.

First (and only?) edition. The poems are divided into two sections: ‘The Gardens of the Dauphin’ and ‘Sacred Spring’.

£150

KUSIKOV, Aleksandr Borisovich, pseud. [Boris KUSIKIAN].

Koevangelieran [Ko-gospel-ran].

Moscow, “Imazhinisty”, 1920.

First edition. It is difficult to piece together a cohesive picture of Aleksandr Kusikov. His romanticized self-image was one of a wild mountain-dweller, and the Circassian trappings with which he surrounded himself (he was born in 1896 in Armavir to a large Armenian family called Kusikian) were clearly...

£100

KUSIKOV, Aleksandr Borisovich, pseud. [Boris KUSIKIAN].

Al’-barrak. Poemy.

Berlin, “Skify”, 1922.

First edition, containing five poems on Islamic themes: ‘Al-Barrak’, ‘Al-Kadr’, ‘Julfikar’, ‘Iskandar Namah’ (1921), and ‘Ko-gospel-ran’.

£150

LEBEDEV, V.P.

175 godovshchina Pervago Kadetskago korpusa. 17 fevralia 1907 g. [175th Anniversary of the First Corps of Cadets,...

[St Petersburg,] Press of the First Corps of Cadets, 1906.

Only edition of this collection of poems commemorating the 175th anniversary of the First Corps of Cadets, set up under Anna Ivanovna. Each of the ten ‘scenes in verse’ is narrated by a cadet, once for each Tsar under which the Corps has served.

£180

[PIRANDELLO, Luigi.]

LO VECCHIO MUSTI, Manlio. Bibliografia di Pirandello.

Verona, Mondadori, 1937.

First edition of this authoritative bibliography of Pirandello, published just a year after his death. It includes a long introductory essay by Massimo Bontempelli.

£100

MARSHALL, W.

Monsell Digby. A Novel, in three Volumes ...

London: Remington and Co. ... 1880.

First edition. Set in industrial and rural Lancashire against the background of the economic unrest of 1815, Monsell Digby follows the fortunes of a number of young men caught up in a murderous Luddite riot and its aftermath. Not in NUC and Supplement; UCLA and Texas only on OCLC. Wolff 4582.

£400

MOROZOV, Nikolai Aleksandrovich.

Zvezdnyia pesni … [Celestial Songs].

Moscow, “Zadruga”, 1920.

First published in 1910, this second, enlarged edition is the ‘first complete edition’ of Morozov’s poetry, bringing the collection up-to-date (i.e. 1919). We offer volume I; a second appeared in 1921.

£120

MOROZOV, Mikhail Mikhailovich.

O’tao. Drama v 2-kh deistviiakh [Drama in Two Acts].

Moscow, Sozvezdie, 1921.

First edition of a short play, set in Japan, by the Shakespeare scholar and translator M.M. Morozov (1897–1952). It was premiered on 15 June 1921.

£100

PETNIKOV, Grigorii Nikolaevich.

Kniga Marii zazhgi snega [The Book of ‘Mary Light the Snows’].

St Petersburg, “Liren’”, 1920.

First edition of the last of the poet-translator’s books to be published by Liren’, the publishing house he founded together with Aseev in 1914.

£100

RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.

Korabli. Vtoraia kniga stikhov [Ships. A Second Book of Poems].

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1920.

First edition of the second collection of poems published by Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet well-known for her translations of Shakespeare.

£150

RADLOVA, Anna Dmitrievna.

Krylatyi gost’. Tret’ia kniga stikhov [The Winged Guest. A Third Book of Poems].

[St Petersburg,] “Petropolis”, 1922.

First edition: Radlova’s third collection of poems, written in 1920–22.

£120

REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich.

Elektron.

St Petersburg, “Alkonost”, 1919.

First edition, one of only a small number of poetic works by Remizov, ‘the most original, many-sided, and accomplished modernist prose writer…, a writer who at best would score a succès d’estime with a select public and never gained international recognition’ (Terras, History of Russian...

£250

SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

St. Petersburg, 1866.

first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential lectures at the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy. Sechenov states in his preface that as soon as he began to lecture (St. Petersburg in 1860 was his first professorship) he discovered the deficiencies of the existing textbooks, which tended to be...

£2750

[SHERSHENEVICH, Vadim Gabrielevich, translator and editor.] VILDRAC, Charles, and Georges DUHAMEL.

Teoriia svobodnogo...

Moscow, “Imazhinisty”, 1920.

First edition of Shershenevich’s translation of Vildrac and Duhamel’s Notes sur la technique poétique (1910), ‘which served as the basis for Shershenevich’s theory of the “vers libre of images,” in his imagist book, 2 × 2 = 5 (1920)’ (Terras).

£150

SHIRMAN, Grigorii Iakovlevich.

Klinopis’ molnii [Cuneiform of Lightnings].

Moscow, All-Russian Union of Poets, 1926.

First edition. A friend of Esenin and Mariengof, Shirman (1888–1956) graduated from the medical faculty at Moscow University in 1912 and worked as a doctor in the city. He was arrested four times (1927, 1937, 1941, 1949), but was released each time without charge. His first book of verse, Mashina...

£250

SIDOROV, Gurii Aleksandrovich.

Vedro ognia [A bucket of fire].

Moscow, [All-Russian Union of Poets, 1920].

Stilts, Skiff, both 1920; A Cloven Sun, 1921; Stalks, 1922). According to one contemporary reviewer, he was a poetic ‘builder of a second Rome’.

£150

TAMAMSHEV, Aleksandr Artem’evich.

Iz plamia i sveta [From the Flame and Light].

Petrograd, [R. Golike & A. Vil’borg,] 1918.

First edition. The title is taken from a poem by Lermontov (Est’ rechi—znachen’e / Temno il’ nichtozhno … ‘There are speeches – whose meaning / Is obscure or insignificant / But it is impossible to hear them without being moved … From the flame and light / The born word / Would...

£250