American Literature from Biblionne

Life-time edition. Original edition was published in 1883. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was among the pioneering writers of detective fiction in the United States, earning her the title "the mother of the detective novel." Before the Russian Revolution, approximately a dozen of Green's novels were translated into Russian. Some of these translations were based on the French editions, and, quite notably, in… Read more about this item

One of 6 000 copies published. First and only edition of this translation. Russian readers first encountered Bret Harte's stories and essays in 1873. It's interesting that Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a journalist, novelist, and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and Narodniks, translated Harte's story Miggls while he was in exile in Siberia. These works swiftly garnered immense popularity among Russian audiences. The… Read more about this item

One of 5 100 copies published. First and only Russian edition of Norris's "Salt". Rare. F. Scott Fitzgerald advised young women to read "Salt" (1919) by Charles Gilman Norris (1881-1945), an American novelist and playwright, so that they could gain insight into life. Furthermore, it is known that Fitzgerald sent a copy of "This Side of Paradise" to Norris with the inscription: "For… Read more about this item

First or second copy. Unique typescript of the earlier version of the translation. The extracts from the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls", translated into Russian, were scheduled to be published in Znamya magazine in 1941. However, the outbreak of war in June of that year disrupted these plans. Simultaneously, Hemingway faced criticism for the novel and was accused of slander… Read more about this item

One of 6 200 copies published. First Russian edition. This collection comprises six stories from the original edition "Free, and Other Stories" (1918): "A Story of Stories," "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers," "The Second Choice," "Old Rogaum and His Theresa," "When the Old Century Was New," and "Married." The stories were translated by William Ravinskii (Rovinskii; 1902-1971) and his wife Tatiana… Read more about this item

One of 5 000 copies published. First and only translation of "Bright Metal" in Russian. The first Russian translation of T.S. Stribling (1881-1965), an American writer and Pulitzer Prize laureate (1933), was published in 1926. This was followed by four more books, all published by 1929. The subsequent Russian translation appeared only in 1948 and marked the final Russian book by Stribling. The… Read more about this item

This is an original photograph featuring the writer Philip Roth and actress Nicole Kidman. The photo was taken at the popular New York restaurant, the Russian Samovar, on April 26, 2002. It is likely that multiple copies of this photograph were produced, with one being displayed in the restaurant itself. This particular photo was captured during the filming of 'The… Read more about this item

Moskva, Detskaya literatura, 1965. First and only Ciardi's book in Russian. Signed and inscribed by the illustrator: "Tole ot Natashi / na pamyat' o / nashem detstve / N Antokol'skaya / 22 okt. 66 g." [To Tolya from Natasha to the memory of our childhood N. Antokol'skaya October 22, 1966]. This copy was signed and inscribed by the artis and… Read more about this item

Second Russian edition of The Scarlet Letter. First Russian edition of The Blithedale Romance. The only edition of this translation. This first and only Russian edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's collected works was interrupted in the second volume. These novels were translated and issued by Iosif Maevskiy (1874-1937), who lived in the US in the early 1900s and communicated with Jack… Read more about this item

One of 10 200 copies printed. First Russian edition of the novel. Banned book. The second part of Dos Passos's major work the U.S.A. trilogy. Before this edition there were published only extracts in periodicals.Translation was prepared by a poet, the Russian Joyce's Ulysses translator Valentin Stenich (1897-1938). He was arrested in November 1937 and executed.All editions of Dos Passos's books were… Read more about this item

Vladivostok, Uliss, 1991. Limited to 20 000 copies. First Russian edition of first Dylan's book. Tarantula, an experimental prose and poetry collection in stream-of-consciousness style, was written in 1965–1966. The publishing process was interrupted because of the Dylan's motorcycle accident. First copies appeared by underground press in the middle of 1965. First official edition was issued only in 1971. In 2003… Read more about this item

Wolfe's first book in Russia. The introduction was prepared by Inna Levidova (1916–1988), a translator, literary critic and key figure of the Soviet bibliography. She was a bibliographer in the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature and wrote important bibliographies of English and American literature. She called Wolfe 'an eternal youth' and 'the son of America', who dreamed about 'changes… Read more about this item

Faulkner's first book in Russian. This collection of stories includes: Barn Burning (1939), A Justice (1931), Red Leaves (1930), That Evening Sun (1931), Smoke (1932), Percy Grimm (1932) and Victory (1931). The story Percy Grimm is an extract from the novel Light in August (1932). It is interesting, that the second Faulkner's book was issued in the following year. It includes… Read more about this item

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Signed and inscribed by the author: 'To Lila / with best wishes / John Updike / 19-XI-64'. First edition. Updike traveled to the USSR from October 20 to December 6, 1964 (Bellis De J. The John Updike Encyclopedia, 2000). In the USSR The Centaur appeared in the magazine Inostrannaya literature (#1-2) in 1965 for… Read more about this item

Kiev, Dnipro Publishers, 1973. Rare first edition of the novel in the USSR in English. First edition in Ukrainian language was published only in 1982. Editions in English, issued in the USSR, published usually as adapted text books for schools or universities. However, this edition were printed to 'common' readers and includes the original text. Preface is in the best Soviet… Read more about this item

Text of plays are In English, afterword and commentaries are in Russian. The book includes three plays: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941) by Eugene O'Neill, The Autumn Garden (1951) by Lillian Hellman and Orpheus Descending (1957) by Tennessee Williams. The first edition of Long Day's Journey Into Night in the USSR. Exactly for this play O'Neill was posthumously awarded… Read more about this item

Moskva-Leningrad,Goslitizdat, Khudozhe-stvennaia literatura, 1938 Limited to 15 000 copies. The magazine with story by Ernest Hemingway Starik u Mosta (Old Man at the Bridge; 1938). It takes place during the Spanish Civil War. Instead of using this note as a news article to the North American Newspaper Association, Hemingway published it as a shot story in Ken Magazine (№ 4, May 19,… Read more about this item

[Moskva], Goslitizdat, 1934. Limited to 8 000 copies. Hemingway's first book in Russian. Passed for printing on 8/XII 1934. This edition includes stories from Hemingway's first book In Our Time (except On the Quai at Smyrna, The Revolutionist and My Old Man), Men Without Women (Ten Indians, The Killers, In Another Country, A Simple Enquiry, Che Ti Dice La Patria? (I),… Read more about this item

Lindegren A.N. and V.O.T. [Trakhtenberg] - translation. Fedorova N.M. - translation First translation of the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in Russian language. The translation appeared in second volume of the first Mark Twain's Collected Works edition in Russian language. Several stories published previously as the novel The American Claimant. It appeared four years before in serials in another… Read more about this item

Pinchevski Mar - translation. Kukhalashvili Volodimir - afterword. Chekan'uk Iu.A. - book design The first edition of The Great Gatsby in Ukrainian language. Tender is the Night was published in Ukrainian in 1975 for the first time. Translated by Mar Pinchevskii (1925-1983) - journalist and writer. He was a son of Jewish poet Moishe Pinchevskii. Mar Pinchevskii translated into Ukrainian novels… Read more about this item