Books:Slavic Literature:Poetry from ZH BOOKS

Berlin: Izdatelstvo "Mysl", 1921. Softcover. Berlin: Izdatelstvo "Mysl", 1921. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; light brown wraps, ruled and printed in dark brown; small nicks to tips of spine; thin, closed cut to spine along bottom of front wrap; small puncture to upper margin of title page; very good condition.One of Erenburg's (1891-1967) earlier books, the current… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1977. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [6], 5-114, [1]; beige wraps, printed and illustrated in black; a bit of age-toning to spine and margins of wraps; minor wear to corners and tips of spine; small rubbed spot to upper corner of ffep (removed bookshop label); small, closed puncture to lower margin… Read more about this item

S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) : Tipografiia kn. V. P. Meshcherskago, 1894. Hardcover. Late 19th-century edition, two title pages, as issued; 9 x 6; pp. [3], 6-209, [3]; later 1/4 brown morocco and pebbled purple cloth over boards; gilt title and monogram to spine; 2" loss of leather and thin cut along joint of front board (still firmly attached); small personal… Read more about this item

San Frantsisko (San Francisco): By the author, 1971. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. III-VI, 1-72, [2]; textured, off-white wraps, printed in black; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; small spot to front wrap, else clean; illustrated with drawings by the author; near fine condition.Published by a Russian emigre poet and member of the… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Centaur Press, 1963. Softcover. First edition presumed; 5 x 4; pp. [28], recto only; illustrated beige wraps; paper label with title laid-on; faint crease to lower corner; two small smudges to illustration on front wrap (moisture drops [?]); overall in very good condition.A beautiful edition, possibly a first English translation, of Pasternak's poem "Zimnie prazdniki," it was… Read more about this item

S. l. (Moscow [?]): Molodaia gvardiia, 1926. Softcover. First edition in book form (initially published in the same year in "Komsomolskaia pravda"), 1 of 4000 copies; 6 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [6], 9-30; beautiful, Avant-garde, pictorial wraps; a few small nicks and a bit of wear along edges; partially unopened; very good condition.Aleksandr Alekseevich Zharov (1904 - 1984)… Read more about this item

Londyn: Oficyna Poetow i Malarzy, 1972 . Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 64; beige card stock wraps, printed in green and red; small wrinkles along edges of wraps, else minor wear; very good to near fine condition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page verso.Janusz Ihnatowicz (1929 - ) is a Polish… Read more about this item

Peterburg: Alkonost, 1919. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4; pp. 183; beige wraps printed in red and black; a few small nicks to spine and edges and faint crease line to lower corner; beautiful woodcut fronts; very good or better.On Aleksandr Blok and Andrei Belyi's poetry. Razumnik Vasil'evich Ivanov [Ivanov-Razumnik] (1878-1946) was a Russian author, philosopher, and… Read more about this item

Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1993. Softcover. First edition (1 of 4500 copies); 5 x 8; pp. [2], 5-287; illustrated off-white wraps; faint crease to upper back corner and a few minor spots to back cover and spine; internally clean; very good to near fine condition. Signed and dated by author on front cover and title page.Iurii Mikhailovich Kublanovskii is a… Read more about this item

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Second revised edition; 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"; pp. [4], 5-164, [4] index; original boards with cloth spine; paste-on label with title to front cover; wear mostly along edges and corners of boards; some rubbing to head and tail of spine; pages clean; good or better. This edition limited… Read more about this item

Moskva: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1943. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, 12mo 4 1/2" x 6"; pp. 3-50, [2] index; original printed wraps; minor wear to covers with a few small faint spots; near fine. Pasternak wrote his collection of poems 'On Early Trains' at a time, when Socialist realism as a cultural model was becoming more and more… Read more about this item

Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition; 8vo 5 1/2" x 8"; pp. [6], 5-207, [1]; original blue/green boards with printed DJ; minor wear and discoloration to bottom edge of back cover; portrait frontis; near fine. DJ fair with a few closed tears and small losses of paper. Uncommon in the elusive DJ. "Two books" was… Read more about this item

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1947. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition in this format; staple-bound 5" x 8"; pp. 3-46, [1]; original stiff pictorial wraps; small piece chipped off upper corner of front cover, else near fine. Il'ia Muromets, depicted in numerous epic poems some of which were collected in this book, was a Kievan Rus epic… Read more about this item