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CHEKHOV’S FIST COLLECTION OF PLAYS Saratov and Tiflis after the book and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, appeared. Royalties from Uncle Vanya Konstan-tin Stanislavsky, Olga Knipper- 1. Chekhov Anton P'esy [Plays]. and The Seagull became a sizable Chekhova and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Sankt-Peterburg, А.С. Suvorin, 1897, 335 portion of Chekhov's income to the end There are photos of the performances of pp., 8vo, in half leather modern binding, of 1898. The Seagull (1898), Uncle Vanya (1899), in good condition, rebacked. Kilgour #235 Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry First edition of Anton Chekhov's first OCLC locates two copies of this edition Orchard (1904) at Moscow Art Theater, collection of plays. The book includes in USA: in the Houghton Library, in the including rare photo of Stanislavsky in seven plays: Medved’ (The Bear), Yale University Library. the role of Ivanov (1904). Predlozhenie (A Marriage Proposal), [Russian literature. Russian theatre] Text by Chekhov's researcher professor Tragik ponevole (A Tragedian in Spite of Yuri Sobolev. Most likely the idea of Himself), Lebedinaia pesnia (Kalkhas) (5744) $ 3700 publishing of this album belonged to (Swan Song), Ivanov, Chaika (The him. Sobolev was chairman of the Seagull), Diadia Vania (Uncle Vanya). A.P. Chekhov. 25 Let so Dnya Society of Anton Chekhov and engaged First book edition of five plays (except A 2. in conducting of anniversary events Tragedian in Spite of Himself and Smerti. (1904-1929). [25 Years dedicated to Chekhov. In the preface Ivanov). Before that, they were from the Death. 1904-1929]. author linked Chekhov's death with the published as a lithographic editions or Introduction by Y. Sobolev. capture of Port Arthur in the Russian- in periodicals. First ever edition of the Japanese war. 'Along with Chekhov old play Uncle Vanya. Moskva-Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe Russia died'. Izdatelʹstvo, 1929, [8] pp., 24 plates., in This book appeared in April 1897. original illustrated wrappers, 8vo album, [Russian literature. Chekhov edited plays specially for this in good condition, minor losses on spine, Russian theatre] edition because of the pressure of stain on top edge, stained to back cover. censorship: the first version of The (5745) $350 Limited to 5 000 copies. Seagull was forbidden to stage in folk theaters. Album with Chekhov's brief biography and reproductions of rare photographs. The Seagull's first performance (1896) was a complete disaster. Chekhov was These photos published on basis of the devastated and swore never again to Chekhov House-Museum and the write plays. So for this edition he re- Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre collections. wrote Leshii (The Wood Demon, 1889, it was a failure also) to the play Uncle One of the most interesting photo made Vanya. Uncle Vanya was a great success in 1898. There is Chekhov, who was in Odessa, Kiev, Nizhny Novgorod, reading text of The Seagull for the artists

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3. Scott Walter Vladetel' We couldn't trace any copy of the Ostrovov. [The Lord of the edition in USA, two copies are in Europe, in Cambridge University Library and in Isles]. A poem in six songs. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Moskva, Tip. Avgusta Semena, 1827, 275 Emanuele II in Rome. p., in half leather contemporary binding, [English literature. Translations] 12mo, in good condition, losses on spine, rubbed, foxing and stains on pages. (5746) $ 3800 The one and only edition of the poem The Lord of the Isles of Walter Scott (1771-1832) in Russian. Translated as prose. The original poem was published in 1815. This poem is about the national hero of Scotland Robert the Bruce. He headed the First War of Scottish Independence against England and was a King of Scots from 1306 till 1329. In the poem he was into an exile and sought an asylum with Ronald, Lord of the Isles. Robert appeared on the day of the wedding feast and the party broke up. The guests divided into two camps: one ready to raise him to the Scottish crown and others ready to kill him. This edition was printed in one of the best printing house in Moscow. Owner of printing house was a Frenchman, publisher and typographer Avgust Semen. Very rare. Levidova, #249.

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HEMINGWAY’S FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN Kashkin for use in For Whom the Bell Hemingway Starik u Mosta (Old Man at Tolls. Also Hemingway wrote that the Bridge; 1938). 4. Hemingway Ernest Smert' Kashkin 'is the best critic and translator It takes place during the Spanish Civil Posle Poludnya. [Death in the I ever had'. War. Instead of using this note as a news Afternoon]. The introduction appeared separately article to the North American [Moskva], Goslitizdat, 1934, 271 pp., previously as an article in Literaturny Newspaper Association, Hemingway portrait, in publisher's binding, 8vo, in Kritik 9 (September 1934). Here published it as a shot story in Ken very good condition, minor losses on Kashkin wrote that Hemingway 'is Magazine ( 4, May 19, 1938). In spine, small stain on back cover, small outside the traditions of modern Russian the story was translated very loss of edge on pp. 23-24 without text. American literature' and compared him quickly. The№magazine has been signed to Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Guy for printing on September 8. In 1936, Limited to 8 000 copies. de Maupassant and Prosper Merimee. Edmund Wilson's article Letter to Soviet Hemingway's first book in Russian. Hanneman, 287. Libman, 6686. readers about Hemingway (also Passed for printing on 8/XII 1934. Internatsional’naya Literatura, 1936, OCLC locates three copies in USA only: This edition includes stories from 2) was published. It includes criticism in Harvard Library, University of Texas, Hemingway's first book of the novel The Green Hills of Africa In Our Time University of Cambridge, one copy is in (except On the Quai at Smyrna, The №(1935). However, Soviet censors began Belguim (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Revolutionist and My Old Man), to defend Hemingway. He was the Men Library). Without Women (Ten Indians, The approved author for the Soviets. Killers, In Another Country, A Simple [American literature] Translation by Tat'yana Ozerskaya. She Enquiry, Che Ti Dice La Patria? (I), An (5747) $ 3600 also translated to Russian novels by Jack Alpine Idyll, Hills Like White Elephants, London, Theodore Dreiser, Robert A Canary for One, Now I Lay Me), Death Stevenson. (an excerpt from in the Afternoon 5. [Hemingway Ernst] Libman, 6712. twelfth chapter) and Winner Take Internatsional'naya Literatura Nothing (Homage to Switzerland, A [International Literature]. 8. [American literature] Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Gambler, (5748) $ 450 the Nun, and the Radio). Moskva-Leningrad,Goslitizdat, Khudozhe-stvennaia literatura,№1938, Ivan Kashkin, critic and translator, was 264 pp., ill., in original wrappers, 8vo, in ‘responsible for Hemingway reputation good condition, small tears on cover, in the USSR'. He founded and headed spine repaired. 'the Soviet school' of literary translation. This team translated the book. Limited to 15 000 copies. Hemingway borrowed the name The magazine with story by Ernest

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GATSBY AS JAMES BOND We couldn’t trace any copy in USA via ORPHEUS DESCENDING 6. Fitzgerald F. Scott The Great OCLC. OCLC locates one copy only, in the IN RUSSIA Gatsby. National Library of Israel. 8. Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee [ ] A novel. Illustrations and cover by V. American literature Three (5751) $ 550 Williams, Lillian Hellman Dozorets. American Plays. Kiev, Dnipro Publishers, 1973, 184 pp., ill., Illustrations by V. Aleshin. Afterword by in publisher's illustrated binding, 12mo, 7. Capote Truman Odin iz Putey v G. Zlobin. Commentaries by E. in good condition, scraped edges, small Ray [Among the Paths to Eden]. Mednikova. stains on spine, owner's pencil marks. Series Biblioteka "Ogonyok" 15. Moscow, Progress publishers, 1972, 384 Limited to 50 000 copies. Translation by S. Mitina. pp., ill., in publisher's cloth binding with Rare first edition of the novel in the Moskva, Pravda, 1967, 64 pp., in original№ dust jacket, 8vo, in good condition, dj USSR in English. First edition of The wrappers with portrait, 12mo, near very with tears Great Gatsby in Ukraine. First edition in good condition. Text of plays are In English, afterword Ukrainian language was published only Second Capote's book edition in Russia. and commentaries are in Russian. in 1982. This collection of stories includes Jug of The book includes three plays: Long Editions in English, issued in the USSR, Silver (1945), Among the Paths to Eden Day’s Journey Into Night (1941) by published usually as adapted text books (1960), A Christmas Memory (part of the Eugene O'Neill, The Autumn Garden for schools or universities. However, cycle Buddy and Miss Sook, 1956) and (1951) by Lillian Hellman and Orpheus this edition were printed to ‘common’ Children on Their Birthdays (1948). First Descending (1957) by Tennessee readers and includes the original text. book edition of these stories in Russian. Williams. The first edition of Long Day's Preface is in the best Soviet propaganda In the foreword Capote called 'blue- Journey Into Night in the USSR. Exactly traditions: 'The lust for money, inherent eyed dreamer Dill' from the novel To Kill for this play O'Neill was posthumously in the so‐called "American Way of Life", a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. awarded the Pulitzer Prize. proved a curse to many of his Translation by Sulamif' Mitina. She also The issue framed like the first edition of characters, and sometimes they became translated to Russian novels by Graham Orpheus Descending - in white, black and victims of their own wealth—like Major Greene, Tennessee Williams, J.D. blue. Jay Gatsby in this book.' Salinger. OCLC locates two copies only: in the As first Russian edition (1965), this Libman, 2829. Penn State University Libraries and the book is printed without epigraph by OCLC locates three copies of this edition American University of Armenia. Thomas Parke D'Invilliers - a pen name in USA: in the University of California [American literature. American theatre] of Fitzgerald. Library, in the Yale University Library (5749) $ 350 The edition is illustrated by Vyacheslav and in the Harvard College Library, one Dozorets (1941-1993) – graphic, art more copy is in Amsterdam. editor later art editor-in-chief of the [American literature] Ukranian publishing house Dnipro. (5750) $ 450

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‘NEW FAUST’ son, Yevgeny wrote: '...waiting for arrest Pasternak edited the proofs of the first 9. Goethe Johann Wolfgang part of Faust' (E. Pasternak. Boris Faust. Pasternak. Biography. 1997). At the Translation by Boris Pasternak. same time, Pasternak wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago (1945-1955). So Introduction and comments by N. Pasternak created in parallel some Vil'mont. similar types - doctor Zhivago and Illustrations by A. Goncharov. doctor Faust. [Leningrad], Khudozhestvennaia That years were not good for the writer. literatura, 1953, frontispiece, 620 pp., 5 As Margarete in Faust, Pasternak's plates., in publisher's binding, 8vo, near beloved, Olga Ivinskaya, was very good condition. imprisoned, where she lost their baby. Limited to 10 000 copies. In October 1952 Pasternak had his first heart attack. Nevertheless Pasternak First edition of Faust in Boris Pasternak's translation. went ahead cause Faust 'has infected him’ with energy and 'run away with It is the latest and one of the best Faust's power witch acting in the tragedy' translation in Russian. (L.Mal'chukov. Easter chronotop in The translator's work was almost the Faust... 2008). only chance for Pasternak to stay as a By repute, in the fifth act Pasternak man of letter during Stalin's era. wrote about Stalin. The book has been Pasternak translated Goethe's The send to the printer's a few weeks after Mysteries in 1922 at the beginning of his the death of this Soviet leader. translator career. It was his first Andrey Goncharov was the Illustrator of published translation. He also wrote the book. He studied at VKhUTEMAS poems Mephistopheles (1919) and under Vladimir Favorsky. Margarita (1930). So he went back to Goethe at the end of 1940s. By repute, in Zakharenko, 1995, # 121. 1944, a famous Russian poet Anna [German literature. Nobel Prize Laureate Akhmatova put an idea 'to write a new in Literature] Faust' into Pasternak's head. The (5752) $550 contract with the publishing house was made no later than 1947. Pasternak's

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SAMIZDAT 10. Ioann Moskovskiy [Polyakov marks. Samizdat is underground literature Vladimir] Iv Montan i Drugie. Rare samizdat edition of verses and secretly written, copied by hand and [Yves Montand and Others]. poem Gorbunov and Gorchakov by circulated from reader to reader in the Poem in four chapters. Josheph Brodsky. The poem consists of Soviet Union. It appeared before WWII conversations between Gorbunov and N.p., N.p., ca 1963, 8 pp.+ [2] pp., in but spread widely following Joseph Gorchakov, who are patients in a mental owner's wrappers, 4vo, in good condition, Stalin’s death in 1953. The techniques asylum, looks like a prison. The poem tear on front cover, owner's marks in text. used to reproduce several copies varied. was written between 1965 and 1968. It might be made using carbon paper on Humorous and sarcastic poem by This 'auto-therapeutic' poem (like a typewriter. playwright, founder of the Moscow Brodsky called 'long verses') is Theater of Miniatures Vladimir Polyakov. Samizdat (‘I-self-publish’) was the one considered the most extensive work by Poem about the arrival of Yves Montand Brodsky - 1398 verses. and only way to publish something that in Moscow in 1956. Polyakov wrote it as didn’t go with official policy in literature Brodsky was taken to Kashchenko a parody of the Soviet intelligentsia, psychiatric clinic in Moscow and later to (as Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak or ingratiated to French artist. poems by Joseph Brodsky). In such way Psychiatric Hospital 2 (to 'Priazhka') they produced also something very Edition enclosed leaf with poem Uncle in Leningrad (end of 1963 - start of popular but printed officially in small "X" about Mosgaz - one of the first Soviet 1964). He was 23 №years old. It was amount of copies (like The Master and serial killers. Author of this poem is compulsory treatment because of Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov) or unknown. This is parody of a poem by Brodsky's 'social parasitism' and something written outside of Russia and famous Russian poet and translator dissidence. After release, in March 1964, banned for circulating inside the country. Samuil Marshak Unknown Hero. Brodsky was sentenced to exile. The practice was dangerous, because Most likely, first copy. Text was printed The poem was published in the book copy machines and printing presses, and on tracing paper. Ostanovka v pustyne (Stop in the desert; even typewriters in offices were under We couldn't trace any book copy of this New York, 1970) for the first time and in control of the KGB. Samizdat had often poetry in libraries in Russia, Europe and Russia it appeared in 1999 only. For the blurry pages with numerous USA. first time in English the poem was typographical errors and nondescript [Russian poetry. Samizdat] published in the book To Urania (New covers. Text could exist in several (5753) $ 450 York, 1988). versions. This edition includes poems of 1972 also. Brodsky emigrated from the USSR in 11. [Brodsky Joseph] [Verses. June 1972. Some verses are with losses. Gorbunov and Gorchakov]. [Samizdat. Nobel prize laureate in N.p., N.p., mid 1970s, [57] leaves, in Literature] handmade wrappers, 4to, in good condition, a leaf falling out, few owner's (5754) $1300 BIBLIONNE - Precious & Rare Books – List for Boston 2016 - www.biblionne.ru 13

THE PHOTOMONTAGE drawings and engravings is out of date ORIGINAL AS A NEW KIND OF art forms. Only photomontage, the PHOTOGRAPHY AGITATION ART closest to cinema, 'more truthful, more 13. Roman Kaplan, Nicole Kidman 12. Izofront. Klassovaya Bor'ba lifelike, more comprehensible to the and Philip Roth. na Fronte Prostranstvennyh masses'. Klutsis criticized Stenberg brothers posters, called them [New York], N.p., 2002, 10*15,5, in good Iskusstv. [Izofront. The Class condition, rubbing edge, traces of glue on Struggle on the Front Line of the 'bourgeois'. The article illustrated by several the back side. Three-Dimensional Arts]. Sbornik Klutsis’s artworks. Among them the first Original photo of writer Philip Roth and actress Nicole Kidman. The photo was Statey Ob'edineniya 'Oktyabr‘ ‘. montage appeared in Russia, Dynamic taken in a popular New York restaurant [Collection of Articles of Association City (1919), the most famous poster by - - on April 26, 2002. 'Oktyabr' ‘]. Klutsis We Will Fulfill the Plan of Great Russian Samovar Most likely, several copies of this photo Edited by P. Novitsky. Works (1930) and poster For October were made. The same one was kept in Moskva-Leningrad, OGIZ, IZOGIZ, 1931, [2], Revolution XIII Anniversary (1930) the restaurant. This photo was taken 161 pp., ill., in publisher's binding and dust composed of four posters We Will while Kidman and Roth were making jacket, 12mo, in good condition, dust jacket Return the Coal Debt to the Country (this repaired, stained to dj, owner's signature on was the first use of one and the same The Human Stain movie (2003). Philip title-page and p.5, several stains on pages. Roth used to visit this restaurant. Limited to 5 000 copies. poster by Klutsis, he called this technique 'open space'). In the article The restaurant was founded in 1986 by First edition prepared by ‘Octyabr' emigrants from the USSR: art critic reproduced photo The Constructor (The prepared for the first exhibition of Roman Kaplan, dancer Mikhail Self-portrait) (1924) by El Lissitzky. group (June, 1930). Baryshnikov and poet, Nobel prize Constructivist association Octyabr' The editor and author of preface was Octyabr' leader, Pavel Novitsky, former laureate in Literature, Joseph Brodsky. (October; 1928-1932) was founded in Brodsky gave part of the Nobel Prize Moscow and wanted to develop head of VKhUTEMAS. He was professional photographer, whose money to create the restaurant. massagitation art. Members of art group In the TV series Sex and the City, was Gustav Klutsis, Solomon Telingater, photo appeared in USSR in Construction. Rare in the original dust-jacket. Baryshnikov and Sarah Jessica Parker Sergei Eisenstein, Vesnin brothers, filmed in this restaurant. New York Aleksandr Deineka, Alexei Gan, Dmitry Complete copy with one page sticked after book publication, publisher's magazine wrote that it's 'the best bar for Moore. Some of them were imprisoned drinking vodka with the Russian or executed later. disclaimer laid in. Snopkov, p.31 intelligentsia'. Picture of Nicole The book includes one of the most Kidman’s hand and her sign published [Russian avant-garde. Theory of photo- significant article by Gustav Klutsis The in the menu. montage] Photomontage as a New Kind of [Photography] (5755) $750 Agitation Art. He wrote that paintings, (5756) $380

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WHO IS WHO IN CHINA Russian poet Vyacheslav Ivanov. He studied in UK and Switzerland before 14. Baranovskiy M., the Revoultion. After the Revolution, Shvarsalon S. Chto Nuzhno Shvarsalon worked at the Institute for Znat' o Kitae [What You Need to Economic Research and at the Central Know about China]. Committee of the Communist International. Since 1922 he worked in Moskva-Leningrad, Moskovskiy rabochiy, the Soviet embassy in Beijing, and later 1927, 213, [1] pp., map, in original as a TASS correspondent. He was illustrated binding, 12mo, in good arrested in 1932 and spent five years in condition, tears and losses of paper on prison. In 1941 he was accused of being binding, stains. a spy and executed. The edition was Limited to 6 000 copies. banned. A handbook about contemporary China. We couldn't trace any copy of this There are articles in alphabetical order. edition in USA or European libraries via It includes information about The OCLC. Kuomintang of China, the Anfu Club, the [China. Banned books] Gentry, events of the Taiping Rebellion and The Boxer Rebellion, information (5757) $ 650 about Li Dazhao, Wang Ching-wei, Tan Pingshan, Chiang Kai-shek. There are some information about agriculture, industry, trade, finance, history, society, geography and culture. It contains the article about Chiang Kai-shek though it is not in alphabetical order but in the end of the book. Here he is called ‘a traitor’. There is a map with the borders of China during the Chinese Revolution of 1925-1927. Two more detailed maps of Shanghai and Nanjing. One of the authors Sergey Shvarsalon has been the stepson of the famous

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CHILDREN’S GAME or any copy in any libraries. cooked dinner and set a fire. The house Kniga dlya Risovaniya s [Cut-Out Book. Coloring Book. Children’s burned down, and the cat came back to 15. grandma. Vyreznymi Figurami. Zimešanas game] ar . (5758) $ 1450 The series "Book-baby" was a method to save paper and to make available the Malbuch mit Figuren zum good book for millions of Soviet GrāmataAusschneidenIzgriežamām. [The BookFigurāmfor 16. [Viskovatov Pavel] Koshkin children. It appeared since 1937 in Drawing with Cutting Figures]. Dom. [The Cat's House]. Detizdat. There were some books with U siuks-indejcev. Pie siuks- . Series Knizhka-Maluishka. illustrations of best Russian illustrators. Bei den Sioux-Indianern. [At Sioux The publisher printed even Gustav Indians indiaņiem Illustrations by A. Poret. Dore's illustrations in such small format. [Riga], Vivit, 1930s, [6] plates., in original Moskva, Detgiz, 1937, [12] pp., ill., in OCLC traces three copies in USA: in the lithographed wrappers, 4to album, in original illustrated wrappers, 48mo, in University of Washington Library and in good condition, stained to covers, some good condition, spine slightly rubbed. the Princeton University Library (two rubbing on the back cover and on the Livre d'artiste. The illustrations by copies), the National Art Library edges of pages, spine repaired. famous Russian artist Alisa Poret. He (Victoria and Albert Museum) has one Lithographed edition. studied under Pavel Filonov and Kuz'ma copy also. Petrov-Vodkin. She was a member of [Livre d’artiste. Children’s books] Complete and extremely rare game of Filonov's association - the School of battle of the Sioux, Native American Analytical Art. Since 1928 she worked at (5759) $ 200 tribes, and cowboys. the State Children's Publishing House The description for the game published (Detgiz). on verso of front cover in three The fairy tale based on folk songs and languages: Latvian, German and games. The authorship established Russian. according to the publication in 1899, First two chromolithography pages where this verse called Grandma's cat. explain how to color figurines: men, Pavel Viskovatov was a historian of trees, bushes, stones and the house. All literature, he wrote the biography of the other lists are in black and white. Each famous Russian poet Mikhail figurine might to be painted on both Lermontov. sides, cut and attached to a special Fairy tale about the cat who lived with stand. grandmother, and get married. They We couldn't trace any other copy on sale moved to live in the gatehouse. The cat

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