Translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson. Pp. xiv+326, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in silver, top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of..... More
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
Pp. [ii]+xiv+540, selected bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, red papered boards with the poet's initials in blind on upper board, the spine slightly concave; dust wrapper; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2000. First edition. *Contains all the poems by Joseph..... More
Translated by Jane Ann Miller. Pp. xvi+334(last blank), notes, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrappper; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2011. First edition in English. *Biography of the Russian poet by one of his close..... More
Translator: Natalie Staples. Foreword by A. D. Hope. Pp. xiv+114(last blank, colophon), title page decoration, 2 full page portraits; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, slightly rubbed, edges a trifle worn, backstrip lightly faded; bookseller's sticker on verso of half-title page, a couple of spots of foxing; Australian National University..... 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
Pp. [viii]+96, index of first lines; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; text block faintly browned University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1979. First edition. *'We do not present these poems as translations but rather as imitations of the originals, re-created in English' [Introduction]..... 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
Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler. Pp. 880, full page map, list of chief characters thick med. 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in silver, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised, spine a trifle creased; price-clipped dust wrapper, flaps browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a couple..... More
Edited by Jane Gary Harris. Translated by Jane Gary Harris and Constance Link. Pp. [xiv]+726(last blank), frontispiece and one other full page portrait, notes, index; thick med. 8vo; red art. leather, lettered in gilt & blind; dust wrapper, slightly creased, edges lightly rubbed and split, tape mark on reverse at..... 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
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
Edited, translated, & with an Introduction by Jamey Gambrell. Pp. xxxii+250, 6 plates, notes, suggested reading; demy 8vo; orange papered boards, spine lettered in black , the upper board faintly scratched; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split, the backstrip slightly soiled and faded; Yale University Press, New Haven..... More