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First edition in Russian of To have and have not (1937), with an introduction by the Soviet critic Ivan Anisimov. Hemingway's first appearance in Russian was Death in the Afternoon in 1934, when he was praised in the Soviet Union as an active anti-Fascist, and he soon became a favourite foreign author of both the intellectuals and the masses.
The translator Evgenia Kalashnikova had translated Hemingway's Farewell to Arms in 1936. She went on to translate Thackeray, Bernard Shaw, Dickens, Scott Fitzgerald, C. S. Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck and many others into Russian.
OCLC records copies at Princeton, South Carolina, and Virginia.
12mo, pp. 237, [3]; light browning, creases to a few pages, but generally a very good copy in the publisher's binding of half cloth, printed paper label to front cover, illustrated endleaves.

8vo, pp. [vi], xiii, [14]–462, [2] errata; engraved tailpieces; occasional marginal staining and light foxing, generally not affecting text, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt with red label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; boards very lightly worn, but still an attractive copy. Only edition, very uncommon, of this guide to rhetoric by the Moscow-based French grammarian Pierre Hennequin (1772–1849), explicitly designed for both sexes and dedicated to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1759–1828). Hennequin is very explicit that his guide is written for both sexes: 'Je demanderois aux hommes pourquoi ils veulent s'arroger le droit exclusive d'avoir de la raison et de la cultiver, d'avoir de l'esprit et de l'orner, d'avoir un cÅ“ur et de la former, d'aquérir des connoissances et de les communiquer'. His aim, he continues, is to fight the prejudice that has historically condemned the 'more interesting half of human society' to ignorance and obscurity,… Read More

8vo, pp. [14], 124, [2], with scratchboard illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer; a very goodcopy in the publisher's black cloth, orange spine (sunned), wanting the dust-jacket;bookplate of D. G. Bridson, and with dots under the letters d g b on the colophon leaf.First edition of this wartime collection of poems, inscribed shortly after Hughes and Bridsonmet for the first time: 'For Geoffrey Bridson, with the friendship, and regards of LangstonHughes. New York, January 28, 1944'.

A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot, limited to 250 copies signed by Ted Hughes. The text comprises an address given by Hughes on 26 September 1986, at the unveiling of Eliot's blue plaque at Kensington Court Gardens.8vo, pp. [13], [3 (blank)], with photographic illustration pasted in, limitation signed 'Ted Hughes'; printed in black and grey on Frankfurt Cream paper; uncut in blue Fabriano Roma wrappers with printed dust-wrapper of the same, preserved in glassine and card envelopes with printed label; a few marks to outer envelope, otherwise an excellent copy.