Collection: Russian Lit in Translation

Blok, Alexander. The Twelve. Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Babette Deutsch and Abraham Yarmolinsky. NY: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. 12mo. (7" x 4.5"); 23pp.; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Issued as part of The Freeman Pamphlets series. A fair to good... More

NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Octavo. 172pp.; indexes. Black boards, purple half-cloth; silver spine lettering; dust jacket. Mild bumping & browning at spine ends. A few spots of soiling to top of textblock. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with light edge-wear and scuffing. Near fine... More

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First edition. 319pp. Red textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped, with wear and short closed tears at spine ends and tips. First English-language edition of Bulgakov's 1925 novel; this translation by... More

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. 230pp. Presumed first edition (no statement of printing). Orange cloth with black titles and decorative red embossing on front board. Light wear at spine ends and board tips, faint soiling to boards, a handful of crimped page corners,... More

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. First American edition. 230pp., xxxi. Blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles. Boards moderately sunned, irregularly to rear; toning to textblock edges; adhesive offsetting to gutters. About very good in a like jacket, shallowly clipped at all corners but with original... More

First edition of this translation of Gogol's 1835 novel about Cossack warriors living on the Ukrainian Steppe. NY: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1907. Translated by B.C. Baskerville. Octavo (5.25 x 7.5 in.); xii, 295pp.; red publisher's cloth, blind stamped on front board, with brownish-black... More

First edition of this collection of tales by the nineteenth century Russian writer, as translated into English by the acclaimed husband-and-wife duo of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. NY: Pantheon Books, 1998. First edition (full number line on copyright page). Large octavo (6.5 x 9.5... More

First edition of this translation, by Robert Chandler and Geoffrey Smith, of the Russian writer's posthumously published novel about Staninist collectivization. London: The Harvill Press, 1996. 8-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. Black textured paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. xx, 165pp. Top corners lightly bumped.... More

Complete two-volume set of this anthology, featuring a "highly personal and qualitative selection from both the "golden period" of Russian prose immediately following the 1917 revolution and the period from Stalin's death to the present." Translated by various hands, with "about half" of the included... More

N: Galleon, 1936. Hardcover. 8vo. 317pp. Presumed first (no statement of printing). Red cloth with gilt titles. Good condition; all four board corners show moderate bumping, with splitting to the cloth (esp. top corners) and some fraying at spine ends. Textblock lightly toned. Collects three... More

Third printing of this collection of Shalamov's arresting short stories about life in the Stalinist gulags, translated from the Russian and with a foreword by John Glad. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980. Translated from the Russian and with a foreword by John Glad. Third... More

 London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Octavo; 243pp; blue textured paper boards; dust jacket. A hint of sunning at heel of spine, else very fine in a very fine, unclipped ("£6.50 net") jacket. Signed by both Arkady and Boris Strugatsky to... More