Search Results: LITERATURE from Marijana Dworski Books

Abacus, 2005. Paperback. VG+. P/b.. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good

London: Pushkin Press, 1943. Hardback. VG. Original blue cloth, xix+243pp.. Drypoint illustrations by Nora Fry Lavrin. Used; Very Good First printed under John Rodker's own name in 1931. This is his re-issue under the Pushkin Press imprint and uniform with Cankar's Baliff Cerney.

Paris: Im Selbstverlage (By the author), 1925. Pamphlet, original printed wrappers, 23 pp., errata slip bound in. Professor Paul Falla's copy with his initials in pencil. Crisp, clean and tight. Paper browning a little. Endre Ady (Érmindszent 1877 - Budapest 1919) one of the most important poets not only in the 20th century but in Hungarian literature in general. These scarce translations were published in Paris a few years after the poet's death.

London: Little, Brown, 1998. Hardback. AN. As new in original dust-wrapper. 608pp.. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Used; Like New As DM Thomas states in his masterly biography 'He helped to bring down the greatest tyranny the world has seen, besides educating the West as to its full horror. No other writer in our century has had such an influence on our history.' Given Thomas' celebrated use of language, this work will come to be regarded as one of the great biographies of recent decades.

Stanford University Press, 1990. Hardback. VG. x[ii]+545pp.. Used; Very Good

Bristol Classical Press, 1991. Paperback. VG+. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Almost as new except for slight yellowing of pages. Used; Very Good A clear, detailed account of all Pushkin's poetry, heroic, sentimental, bawdy and humorous, as well as a briefer consideration of his major prose works. Accessible to those with no Russian, yet detailed and authoritative enough for the specialist.

Beckenham: Croom Helm; Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. Hardback. AN. As new in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Used; Like New A clear and accessible account of all Pushkin's poetry, followed by a briefer consideration of his major prose works.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1949. First edition thus. Cloth backed, paper-covered decorated boards, 282 pp.. In original dust-wrapper attractively illustrated by Asgeir Scott. In very good condition, clean and tight - with two closed tears to dust-wrapper. "Perennially falling into and out of fashion, he (Leskov) is a stunningly versatile writer and a very un-Russian Russian great" Power, 2014.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. P/b., 238pp., bibliography, index. A very nice copy. Tight and bright, very light browning of fore-edges.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. Hardback. VG. A good, clean, tight copy. No dust-wrapper. Used; Very Good Translated from the Czech original Kniha apokryfu, Borovy, Prague, 1945.

London etc...: Cassell & Company, 1889. Small 8vo., (9.5x14.5) original red cloth, decorated in black with gilt stamped title. Advertisements to lower board and endpapers, publisher's list in back 192+6 pp.. In good condition, clean and tight. With light signs of use only.

London: John Rodker, 1930. Hardback. VG. Small 8vo., a very nice bright copy of the first English edition, in original white dust-wrapper with colour-illustrated on-lay. Clean and tight. (It was re-issued later under Rodker's Pushkin Press imprint). Cover illustration possibly by Nora Fry Lavrin, prominent artist and wife of Janko Lavrin. Used; Very Good Ivan Cankar, founder of Modernism in Slovene literature. The publisher, one of the so-called "Whitechapel-Boys", John Rodker, was himself a modernist writer best known for publishing T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. He also worked on editions of Ulysses both in Paris and London. Rodker also started a number of publishing houses: The Ovid Press (1919), The Egoist Press (with Harriet Weaver, 1922), The Pushkin Press (1937) and perhaps most successfully Imago (1938), publishing Freud's works. Janko Lavrin, Slovene writer, spent much of his life in Britain as Professor of Slavonic Studies.

London: Corgi Transworld Publishers, 1962. Paperback. VG-. A good, clean, tight copy. Usual browning to paper, spine sunned. Used; Good

Moscow: Progress, 1978. First English edition. Original decorated and lettered cloth, original attractive unclipped stylised dust-wrapper. Wrap-round design by V. Surikov. 377 pp.. In excellent condition. Very bright, clean and tight. Possibly unread. Leonid Sobolev [?????? ??????? 1898 - 1971], Soviet writer and journalist, spent his early career in the Baltic fleet. Much of his fiction revolving around naval life extolled Soviet patriotism. He later became a controversial figure in literature. \

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. Hardback. VG. An excellent copy in original yellow dust-wrapper printed in black and red. 447pp.. Clean and tight. Very minor chipping to dust-wrapper and some fading. Fore-edges a little dusty. Used; Very Good "The revolution has need of all kinds of books.... The Black Consul is a net that gathers up all lessons of the French Revolution in France and in Haiti, and lays them before us in orderly and related fashion ... The Black Consul is something less than a novel by reason of its lack of pattern and development. It calls itself a "narrative." Becker, 1935.

London: Faber & Faber, 2010. Paperback. AN. P/b., 384pp.. As new. Lovely bright copy unused. With no underlining and no tears. Used; Like New

Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1982. Paperback. VG. xiii+226pp., b/w photos, bibliography. Used; Very Good With reminiscences and essays by Chukovsky, Gorky, Akhmatova, Gumilyov, Bryusov, Eikhenbaum, Zhirmunsky, Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.

London: Collins Harvill, 1991. Paperback. VG+. Paperback, 288pp.. Faint crease to upper cover else very good. B/w photos. Used; Very Good "Written with sympathy and enthusiasm".

London: Martin Lawrence, 1934. Hardback. VG+. Not dated but probably 1934 (COPAC). A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Original loose-weave cloth lettered in green. No dust-wrapper. Small mark to spine tail. Used; Very Good

London: Flamingo, 1986. Hardback. VG. A good, clean, very tight hardback copy. 170pp.. Paper just a little browned. Reprint. Used; Very Good Novella concerning a soldier serving in the Soviet army on the Siberian border between the USSR and China, who was born in France to émigré parents. It offers a frightening insight into the day to day life of 1980s Soviet military.