A Poetic Pilgrimage. Pp. x+214(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (several full page), select bibliography, reference notes, appendix, index; small med. 8v; red cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board decorated in blind; dust wrapper, back panel faintly scuffed and slightly creased at top fore-corner; book label of David Levine..... More
The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters. Translated by Constance Garnett. With an Introduction by John Gielgud and illustrations by Lajos Szalay. Pp. xvi+154(last blank), 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations; med. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges red; within red, white & green patterned papered..... More
Memories of Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Literary Russia under Stalin. Translated and Edited by John Crowfoot. Pp. xxx+482, text illustrations, double page map, appendices, biographical notes, index; med. 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of..... More
Short fiction and articles. Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Olga Mukovnikova. with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Chandler with Yury Biy-Yunan. And with an Afterword by Fyodor Guber. Pp. [viii]+392, frontispiece portrait, plus 6 full page illustrations, appendices, further reading; med. 8vo; black papered..... More
A Russian writer's travels in Italy and the United States. Translated from the Russian, and with an introduction by Elias Kulukundis. Pp. 192; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1964. First English edition. *Nekrasov's first novel "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" won the Stalin Prize in 1947. More
Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. With an Introduction by Patrick Marnham. Pp. xiv+160(last blank); dust wrapper; ribbon marker; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 2007. First edition thus. *Born in Kiev in 1903, Irene Nemirovsky's family fled the Russian Revolution for France, where she became..... More
Edited by O. A. Golinenko, S. A. Rozanova, B. M. Shumova, I. A. Pokrovskaya and N. I. Azarova. Translated by Cathy Porter. With an Introduction by Professor R. F. Christian. Pp. xxxvi+1044(last blank), 16 plates, endpaper family trees, appendices, notes, indices; thick med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt;..... More
Pp. 400, 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards, the spine faintly rubbed; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Aurum Press, London, 1994. First edition. *Author's final book; posthumously published..... More
Pp. xxviii+572, 24 plates, chronology, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988. First edition. More