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FLEMING, Ian.
You only live twice.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.
First edition, first impression, first state of what is ‘perhaps the most bizarre and doom-fraught of all James Bond’s adventures’ (p. 1), set in Japan and inspired by Fleming’s visits to Japan for The Sunday Times, the title taken from a poem by Bashō: ‘You only live twice:...
£850
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BELYI, Andrei, pseud. [i.e. Boris Nikolaevich BUGAEV].
Zapiski chudaka. Tom pervyi [– vtoroi] [Notes of an eccentric....
Moscow and Berlin, “Helikon”, 1922.
First edition of Bely’s Notes of an eccentric, a thinly veiled autobiographical memoir or ‘diary in story form’.
£550
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OLESHA, Iurii Karlovich.
Zapiski pisatelia [Notes of a writer].
Moscow, [“Ogonek” for] Journalists Union, 1931.
Apparent first edition of Olesha’s autobiographical sketch.
£150
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RICARDO, David.
Zasady ekonomji politycznej i podatkowania.
Warsaw, Jan Cotty, 1919.
Second and most complete Polish edition of On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (first published in 1817), in a new translation by Dr. M. Bronstein. The 1826 first Polish translation by Stanislaw Kunatt was based on the translation into French by the Portuguese journalist Francisco Solano...
£150
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KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich.
Zaumnyi iazyk u: Seifullinoi, Vs. Ivanova, Leonova, Babelia, I. Sel’vinskogo, A. Veselogo, i...
Moscow, Publishing house of the All-Russian Union of Poets, 1925.
First edition, a critical study of six poets by ‘the most effective theoretician of cubo-futurism and its most loyal and consistent advocate of transrational language … or the destruction of meaning in poetry … For Kruchonykh, transrational language also reflected the confusion and chaos...
£650
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OLESHA, Iurii Karlovich.
Zavist’. Roman, s risunkami Natana Al’tman [Envy. A novel, with drawings by Nathan Altman].
Moscow-Leningrad, “Zemlia Fabrika, [1928].
First edition of this famous short satirical novel which ‘catapulted Olesha into the first rank of Soviet writers’ (Terras). It was fêted by both Soviet and émigré critics and established the young writer’s reputation almost overnight. Olesha later adapted it as a play, Zagovor...
£3000
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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich.
Zemnoi prostor [Expanses of Land].
Moscow, “Sovetskii pisatel’”, 1945.
First edition of Pasternak’s war poems.
£400
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KUNDERA, Milan.
Žert [The Joke].
Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1967.
First edition of Kundera’s first novel, The Joke, which gives a satirical account of the political atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s.
£400
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Zhaloby [Complaints].
N.p., Rabochee Knigoizdatel’stvo, 1916.
An ephemeral publication of a short story by Gorky, first published in four parts in Berlin, 1910-1911.
£200
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OSTROGORSKII, Aleksandr Iakovlevich.
Zhivoe slovo. Kniga dlia izucheniia rodnogo iazyka [Living word. A book for learning our...
New York, Association Press, 1920.
Stereotype (first American?) edition. First published in 1907, Ostrogorsky’s (1868–1908) Zhivoe slovo was a runaway success in Russia, where it was widely regarded as the best reader of its type. Such high regard for the book presumably made it an obvious choice for it to be republished for...
£150
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BIEBL, Konstantin.
Zloděj z Bagdadu [The thief of Baghdad].
Prague, Hyperion, 1925.
First edition, a collection of fourteen poems.
£200
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[1905 REVOLUTION.]
ЗРИТЕЛЬ [Zritel’; ‘The Observer’]. No. 24.
St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman, 24 December 1905.
Very rare penultimate number, confiscated by the authorities, of the very first of the satirical magazines to come out of the 1905 Revolution.
£750
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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
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CARNAP, Rudolf.
1959 & 1962.
The first photograph shows Carnap and his wife outside their house and is signed and, in another hand, dated 1959 as having been taken in Santa Monica. The second photograph is of Carnap and is dated 1960, signed and inscribed “Der lieben Erna, in alter Freundschaft”. This refers to Erna Lowenberg...
£1500
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SSYL’NYM I ZAKLIUCHENNYM.
St. Petersburg, [Vol’naia Tipografiia for “Shipovnik”], 1907.
Rare first edition of this anthology of stories, novellas and poems by Russian authors; a publication intended to raise funds in support of the exiled and imprisoned (as the title translates), the victims of the Tsarist reaction after the 1905 revolution. Among the mainly socially oriented and neo-realistic...
£350
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[BIBLE.]
Τα Βιβλια, τουτεστιν, η Θεια Γραφη της Παλαιας τε και Καινης Διαθηκης...
Moscow, the Holy Synod Press for the Russian Bible Society, 1821.
First edition printed in Russia of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament, published likely with political motives in the year of the Greek Revolution.
£1500
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SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.
Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος. Ηλεκτρα. Οιδιπους...
Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:) 24 December 1552].
A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek owned by the Vatican librarian and Greek scholar Leone Allacci, with his name on the title-page. Sophocles’ seven tragedies narrate the stories of the Greek heroes and heroines Ajax, Heracles and Deianeira, Oedipus and Jocasta, Philoctetes, Antigone,...
£1850