Rare Russian poetry
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First edition, 16mo ( 16.5 x 13 cm); 24pp.; original printed wrappers, skilful restoration to backstrip, modern black folding chemise, a very good copy.
£650 -
First edition, 8vo (20 x 14.5 cm); 110pp.; original printed wrappers designed by Yuriy Annenkov, repairs to spine, in a later black folding chemise, a very good copy.
£450 -
First edition, 16mo (17 x 12.5 cm); 111pp.; original lithographed wrappers in black and green by Fisher, neat repairs to spine, a fine copy.
£800 -
Number 70 of 750 copies; 8vo; printed in red & black, colour illustrations by Paul Nash, some toning to endpapers; original red morocco, upper covers with onlays in black, red & cream designed by Paul Nash, spine a touch faded.
£800 -
First edition, one of 500 copies, of which 100 were hors commerce; small 8vo (190 x 102 mm); some pages uncut, internally fresh; in the original printed wrappers, lower wrapper discoloured, spine partially split but still holding, an excellent example without any restoration.
£3,950 -
First edition; small 8vo (16 x 12 cm); original wrappers designed by M. Dobuzhinsky, four scorch marks from early 'protector' on title-page and index leaf, slight age toning, overall an excellent copy.
£1,500 -
First edition, one of only 200 copies; small 4to (17 x 12.7 cm); foreword by Nikolai Assev, original printed wrappers, stains to covers, cover detached from spine, text block detached from covers, without any restoration, in a custom make black morocco and cloth clamshell box, text in gilt to spine.
£7,500 -
8vo (22.5 x 14 cm); frontispiece engraved by A. Grachev, 111 pp., including half-title and title, xvi, [2]; pp. v-vi with upper corner torn off without any text loss, parallel texts in French and Russian, followed by 19 poems in French only; contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; extremities of the spine restored.
£4,250 -
16vo (16.5 x 12 cm); half-title, title-page with frontispiece, 323pp; original printed grey boards with orange spine, a fine copy.
£150 -
First edition, one of 110 copies; folio; 25 (including title) colour etchings with an extra suite of 11 (two of which are numbered and dated by the artist, wide-margined copy; later half morocco with original wrappers bound in, block loosened and edges slightly bumped; text in French, translated by Jarl Priel.
£2,500