Russian Literature from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Berlin: Vertag Ullstein, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Inscribed Rarity. Nabokov, Vladimir. KONIG DAME BUBE [King Queen and Knave]. Berlin: Vertag Ullstein, [1930]., Extraordinary Presentation Copy of the First German Edition published two years after the first edition in Russian which was also issued i n Berlin [Juliar A9.1]. 8vo.… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and Queens Quorum title featuring the decadent Russian detective, Prince Zaleski. The Goldstone copy, with Adrian Homer Goldstone's neat bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A bright, fresh copy with some light overall use, wear at the heel and crown of the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Putnam & Co, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Banting, Frederick], Sholokhov, Mikhail. VIRGIN SOIL UPTURNED. Signed. First Edition, First Issue, First English Language Edition. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry. London: Putnam & Co., (1935). 8vo., pp. 488, Burgundy cloth covered boards. A near fine or better copy… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Walter Scott Publ. Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English of this translation. by B.C.Baskerville. Illustrated. Deep blue cloth covered boards decorated & stamped in blind & gilt on the spine & elaborately on the upper cover. Original black endpapers clean & front cover cloth with some wrinkling, light shelf wear. Neat, small… Ler mais sobre este item

Indianapolis, Ind: Bobbs, Merrill, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 292pp. First Edition. First US Edition [The first book by Vladimir Nabokov to be printed in the United States]. First This Title. Published in England by John Long as: CAMERA OBSCURA, [The original title of the 1932 Russian edition]. A fine copy in… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: MacMillan, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Rarely seen in any condition, this is a rare collectible copy. Certainly the most important of Soviet science-fiction writers are the brothers Strugatsky [Arkady and Boris]. Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris (authors), Theodore Sturgeon (introduction). ROADSIDE PICNIC / TALE OF THE TROIKA. New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1970), 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English of Vladimir Nabokov's first novel, originally written in 1925 and entitled Happiness. 8vo. 114 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, purple topstain, gilt titles to the spine in a fine dustwrapper. Translated by Michael Glenny in collaboration with the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition comprising fourteen poems written in English by Vladimir Nabokov between the years 1942 to 1957. 8vo. 44 pp. A fine copy in aqua cloth, gilt butterfly to the upper front cover, gilt titles in a just about fine dustwrapper. Drawings by Robin… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of short stories, Conversation Piece, First Love, Signs And Symbols and Lance first appearing in The New Yorker. 8vo. 214 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, yellow and red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of these four short stories originally appearing in The New Yorker, Esquire and The Hudson Review. 8vo. 104 pp. A fine copy in gray textured cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper with some very light use.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English of Vladimir Nabokov's last play written in the 1930's. 8vo. 111 pp. A fine copy in blue cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper. Juliar A19.1, Variant A, with white endpapers, the last two… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., N.D. [1873], 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition thus. Originally published with Holt & Williams, 1872 on the title page. Sm 8vo., 291pp. Green cloth, gilt, spine mildly faded. nicely decorated. Frontis. portrait of the author. Title Page in black & red. A very good copy showing ligh t… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, [1955, Book Date]: Olympia Press, 1955. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Custom Fitted Leather Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped to the spine.The case is finished in dark green leather… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, [1955, Book Date]: Olympia Press, 1955. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped on an inset brick red title piece. The case is finished… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Long, Limited, [1935] & ;1937] Two Volumes, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. [NABOKOV, Vladimir] NABOKOFF-SIRIN, Vladimir. CAMERA OBSCURA. DESPAIR. Both of the John Long Nabokov Rarities. Translated from the Russian by Winifred Roy & the first translation of any of Nabokov's books into English. [Juliar D14.4] 8vo., 288pp + 16 pp ads. Original… Ler mais sobre este item

Lenningrad: Leningrad, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition of this Russian thesis examining the esthetic views of Jean-Paul Sartre. Inscribed by the author to Sartre on the title-page and Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to close friend Michelle Vian, (Boris Vian's wife). A fresh, bright copy in the original printed… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Francis Myddleton Davis, N.D. [1914]. Printed By Hazell,Watson, & Viney, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Turgenev's novel, originally titled, A Nest Of Gentlefolk, privately printed by the translator, Frantz Davidovitch Davis, whose English translation has imbued Turgenev's richly written prose with a militant 'Socialist' slant makin g this particular rendition all the more… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. AISLIN.. AISLIN. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy of this delightful correspondence between economist John Maynard Keynes and one of Diaghilev's finest ballerinas, Lydia Lopokova, Virginia Woolf's model for Lucrezia Warren Smith in Mrs. Dalloway, commencing in 1918 and ending with the last, written just before… Ler mais sobre este item