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Paris: YMCA-Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Russian edition; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; pp. [8], 9-573 + 2 maps; original plain green cloth-over-boards; silvery title to spine; very minor wear (spine very slightly cocked forward, mostly very clean); near fine. 'August 1914' was the first book in the author's epic cycle 'The Red Wheel.' Solzhenitsyn was awarded The Nobel Price for Literature in 1970 and due to his controversial works - expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He began gathering materials for his current novel as early as the 1930s. In the aftermath of WWII, he was arrested for spreading derogatory comments about the conduct of the war and sentenced to a term in a labor camp. He eventually finished the manuscript in late 1970. The plot was centered on the defeat of Imperial Russia at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. Provenance: From the library of Simon Karlinsky - professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature at UC Berkeley from 1964 to… Read More

Moscow: Literaturnaia Uchioba, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. First Russian edition; 8vo; pp. [7], 8-302; original pictorial boards; a few rubbed spots to head and tail of spine and corners, else clean; very good. 1 of 1000 copies. Cherentsova lives in the US. In her current book-the two novels are separate, yet connected to each other by a common thread-women.

Frankfurt: Literaturnoi Evropeetz, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 5-212; original glossy pictorial wraps; 1" crease line to upper corner of front cover; slight curling to bottom corners of first several pages; near fine. Signed/inscribed by the author to Anatoly Liberman, a professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore at the University of Minnesota. He, himself, is the author of several books and hundreds of smaller scholarly works. In a recent interview, Vladimir Batshev, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, when asked if he had felt nostalgic about Russia answered: "Nostalgia does not exist. It was a word invented by the Communists to discourage people from emigrating.

Frankfurt: Literaturnoi Evropeetz, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; 8vo; pp. [3], 6-501; original glossy pictorial wraps; minor wear to covers, mostly extreme edge of upper corner of front cover and first several pages; slight blue tint to fore-edge of pages, else clean; very good or better condition. In the 1960s, Leonid Borich was a physician on diesel and nuclear submarines in the Soviet Northern Fleet. Because of his own passion for collecting typewriters, he wrote a novella "Of the Life of a Typewriter," which is included in the present book.

Franc-tireur, 2009. Soft cover. Good. First edition, 16mo; pp. [8], 11-115, [11] including bibliography; original pictorial wraps; wear to extreme edges and corners of covers; small closed cut to tail of spine; good or better condition. Russian writer Vladimir Batshev, who currently lives in Germany, was a controversial figure in Russia in the 1960s. He was working as an editor to several journals when he was accused of "parasitism" and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Later he participated in the Dissident Movement in the 1970s.

Sofia: Durzhavno Voenno Izdatelstvo, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 8"; pp. [6], 7-322, [2]; original dark orange boards with black and gilt decorations; pictorial DJ; full-page b & w illustrations; near fine with minor wear to corners; jacket in very good condition with small nicks along edges. In spite of being one of Bulgaria's most acclaimed and honored young authors of the 1960s, sadly, dissident writer Georgi Markov is best known in the West for his infamous murder by the Bulgarian Secret Police, with a poisonous pellet shot by an umbrella, in London in 1978. While still living and working in Bulgaria, Markov was a controversial figure - winning "The Annual Award of the Union of Bulgarian Writers" for his current work 'Men' and at the same time having most of his plays removed and banned from theater stages by the Communist censors. He was also famous for his lavish bohemian lifestyle, which was unknown to most Bulgarians at the time. A… Read More

Vashington: Literaturno-khudozhestvennyi Kruzhok v Kalifornii, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; 6" x 8 1/4"; pp. [6], 5-242, [2]; original printed wraps; minor dust-dulling to covers; slight wear to head and tail of spine; very good or better. Signed/inscribed by Aleksandra L'vovna Tolstaia - the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy. While still young, she was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in 1920. Later, in 1929, she left Russia and immigrated to the US where she established the Tolstoy Foundation (President Herbert Hoover was the first honorary chairman from 1939 to 1964). Under Aleksandra's leadership, the Foundation is known to have helped more than 500 000 people escape political persecution and resettle in the States, including notable names such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Sankt-Peterburg: Pushkinskii Fond. Soft cover. Good. Published quarterly; pp. (Vol.I No.2) 479, (Vol.I No.3) 479, (Vol.I No.4) 446, (Vol.II No.1) 463, (Vol.II No.2) 527, (Vol.II No.3) 527, (Vol.II No.4) 575, (Vol.III No.1) 206, (Vol.III No.2) 536, (Vol.III No.3) 477, (Vol.III No.4) 413; original wraps; different tomes with varying degrees of wear from fair+/acceptable to very good; vol. II # 2 with1" piece missing off head of spine and damage to back edge of spine, else mostly rubbing to spine extremities and corners. An almost complete run of issues, missing only No. 1 of the first volume. This quarterly of Russian philology and culture was first published in 1994. It was intended as a magazine of reviews of publications, bibliographies, catalogs, as well as new publications and scientific news from Russia, Europe, and the US. Each issue printed in very small numbers, usually 500-1000 copies.

Parizh: Sintaksis, 1989. Soft cover. First edition; 5 ¾†x 8 ¼†; pp. [4], 7-95, [5] including text to last page; original heavy textured b & w wraps; very minor wear; fine condition.