Arkhipelag Gulag 1918-1956 2 Vol Set by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich - 1973

BERLIN: SLOVO PUBLISHING HOUSE. VERY GOOD IN PRINTED WRAPS. PUB 1922. FIRST EDITION. PAPERBACK. THIS RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PUBLICATION IS IN CYRILIC ALEX SHANE'S "THE LIFE AND WORKS OF EVGENIJ ZAMJATIN" PG 234 #15 . LIGHT BROWN WRAPS WITH DARK BROWN TITLES AND DESIGN. BOOK HAS WORN CORNERS AND 1/4" LOSS AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE, AND SOME TIDE MARKS TO THE BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER AREA OF THE EARLY PART OF THE TEXT, AND TEXT BROWNED BUT STILL QUITE FLEXIBLE. A VERY NICE COPY OF ZAMJATIN'S RARE FIRST PLAY IN RUSSIAN. .

Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear of glossy pictoral boards. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..

One of 300 copies of rare signed edition of Martyn Zadeka by influential exiled Russian writer Alexey Remizov - inscribed to his patroness Barbara Church, widow of Henry Church. Remizov was a symbolist-modernist writer who was a surrealist "avant la lettre." He was much admired by luminaries of the Parisian literary world including the editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française French Academicien Jean Paulhan and James Joyce. His works failed to find a publisher from 1931 to 1952. In 1953, devotees of his works founded a small publishing house so that his writings could see the light of day. A number of works were published between 1952 and 1957 in limited numbers. "It has been largely overlooked that the textual emancipation of dreams is a process that began much earlier than the surrealist "revolution" of the 1920s. A key figure in this respect is the Russian writer Aleksei Remizov, whose first dream recordings antedate the surrealists by two decades. The goal of this article will be to determine the… Read More

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..

The book from Russian Imperial Library of Nicoulaus II. The proposed articles were written at different times and on different occasions, but their protagonist invariably remained that motley complex of stratifications of our Russian public, which is known under the general name - the intelligentsia: moderate and revolutionary; fussing about cheese artels and dreaming of world reorganization; following the representatives of the propertied society - in the construction of life, and composing its own - party construction, as an antithesis to this construction; the intelligentsia, gravitating towards the peasantry, and the intelligentsia, with the proletariat at the center of their political plans and socialist prospects.

Rare in full set. Good condition.

Moscow, Knebel', 1909-1915. . First edition, 4 vols; 4to (29.5 x 22.5 cm); illustrated with 17 plates, 4 of which are coloured and tippped in, photographic illustrations throughout; original publisher's calf backed cloth, covers blocked in gilt, spines gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities, volume 6 is in bad condition but overall a fine set.4 volumes out of 5