Foreign Literature
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This department specialises in rare and important works of French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and South American literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Here you can find first editions and signed or presentation copies of authors as diverse as Akhmatova, Balzac, Borges, Camus, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Goldoni, Hugo, Kafka, Leopardi, Lorca, Manzoni, Pirandello, Pushkin, Schiller, Tolstoy, Zola, and many others. Among the important works which have passed through our hands are the original working manuscript of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, now in the Pushkin House in St Petersburg, the only known copy of the first edition of Brecht's first play, Baal (1920) with his working notes, and an extraordinary collection of Pushkin first editions.
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Iav’. Poema [Reality. A poem].
Moscow & St Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.
First edition, written by the poet on a...
£400
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SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.
Mater Dolorosa.
St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921.
First edition of Maria Shkapskaya’s first...
£450
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SIDOROV, Gurii Aleksandrovich.
Vedro ognia [A bucket of fire].
Moscow, [All-Russian Union of Poets, 1920].
£150
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SKABICHEVSKII, Aleksandr Mikhailovich.
Ocherki istorii russkoi tsenzury (1700-1863...
St Petersburg, F. Pavlenkov, 1892.
First edition of the critic and journalist...
£500
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SOLOGUB, Fedor Kuzmich, pseud. [Fedor TETERNIKOV].
Koster dorozhnyi [A wayside fire].
Moscow and Petrograd, [‘Tvorchestvo’,]...
First edition, containing three cycles...
£550
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Pis’mo vozhdiam Sovetskogo Soiuza [Letter...
Paris, YMCA, 1974.
First printed edition of a letter written...
£150
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich.
Amerikanskiie rechi [American speeches].
Paris, YMCA, 1975.
First edition, comprising three speeches...
£150
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SORBOLI, Girolamo.
Celestina, favola pastorale.
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.
First and only edition, rare, of this verse...
£750
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[SPADAZZI, Carlo, editor.]
Per le nozze Varano-Dolfin. Rime.
Venice, Stamperia Palese, 1807.
First and only edition of a collection...
£350
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STEPNIAK-KRAVCHINSKII, Sergius Mikhailovich.
Подпольная Россiя ч. 1....
Kiev, Otdel soldatskoi kooperatsii K....
Extremely rare Civil War edition (first...
£125
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STRINDBERG, August.
Tschandala. Berättelse fran 1600–talet.
Stockholm, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags, 1897.
First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set...
£250
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STRINDBERG, Johan August.
Trefaldighetsnatten.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1909].
First separate edition of a collection...
£200
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TAMAMSHEV, Aleksandr Artem’evich.
Iz plamia i sveta [From the Flame and...
Petrograd, [R. Golike & A. Vil’borg,] 1918.
First edition. The title is taken from...
£250
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[TARONI, Giovanni Battista, pseud.] ‘Giovanna Statira BOTTINI’.
Cento nodi da sciogliersi proposti al genio...
Bologna, Gaspare de’ Franceschi, 1765.
Extremely rare edition of one hundred widely...
£450
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TARSIS, Valerii Iakovlevich.
Skazanie o sinei mukhe. Krasnoe i chernoe...
Frankfurt am Main, Posev, 1963.
First edition in Russian of Tarsis’ first...
£90
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[THOM, Robert].
王嬌鸞百年長恨 Wang Keaou Lẅan...
Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.
First and only edition, scarce, loosely...
£1750
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TOALDO, Giuseppe.
Tavole di vitalità.
Padua, Conzatti, 1787.
Sole edition of the first Italian published...
£1500
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TOLSTOY, Aleksei Nikolaevich.
Lirika.
St Petersburg, [S.M. Muller,] 1907.
First edition, very rare: ‘the first...
£1000
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TOLSTOY, Count Aleksei Konstantinovich.
Smert’ Ioanna Groznago, tragediia v piati...
St Petersburg, Naval Ministry Press, 1866.
First edition: the first in the great trilogy...
£2000
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Khoziain i rabotnik. Povest’ [Master...
St Petersburg, V.S. Balashev and Co.,...
One of the earliest printings of one of...
£3000