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$45.00London: Oxford University Press, 1969. First UK edition. 111 pp w/notes, index of poems, cycles and first lines. Light creases to two early leaves (production flaw), ink name to front free endpaper. In all, near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Richard McKane. Essay by Andrei Sinyavsky.
$75.00Ann Arbor: Ardis (1985). First US edition. 195 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and translated from the original Russian by Joel Wilkinson and Slava Yastremski, with their introduction. Five stories written between 1969 and 1978, all in English translation for the first time.$35.00Ann Arbor: Ardis (1985). First edition. 248 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine lettering. Translated and edited by Robert M. Cutler.$50.00Los Angeles: LACMA (1980). First edition. Small 4to. 287 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. “This book documents the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the Russian avant-garde culture.” Illustrated with b&w photographs and reproductions.$20.00NY: Knopf, 1992. Second US edition. viii + 600 pp. Small embossed name stamps to two early leaves, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and wrinkle to rear panel. Translated from the original Russian by Philippe Radley, incorporating revisions and changes from the 1989 Actes Sud edition.$25.00NY: New Directions (1998). First US edition. xx + 122 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Marian Schwartz, with her preface.$15.00NY: Knopf, 1991. First US edition. 307 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Marian Schwartz.$20.00Lexington: Gnomon (1971). First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Translations from the original Russian by Anselm Hollo, with his introduction. Blok’s long poem with the addition of “Remember Our Sleepy Bay,” “It’s Night,” and “Ravenna.”$25.00Preston: Akros Publication, 1968. First edition. 14 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Translations by Robin Fulton.$150.00London: Longmans, Green and Co (1967). First edition. 77 pp. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers, else near fine in very good dust jacket that is tanned along extrems and rear cover. Inked ownership signature of Jim Schevill on the first leaf. Selection and translation from the original Russian by Nicholas Bethell. Brodsky’s first trade title, preceded by a pamphlet.$150.00Middlebrook: Megan Brook and David Schorr (1974). First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original Russian by Olga Shartse. Six portraits etchings by David Schorr. One of 50 copies on Basingwerk paper SIGNED by Schorr.$25.00Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. First edition. ix + 435 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Thomas Gaiton Marullo, with his introduction and notes. “A Portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning Writer and of Russians in Exile, Drawn from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs.”$75.00NY: Dutton (1930). First US edition. 277 pp. Offsetting to front fixed and free endpapers, else near fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Near fine illustrated dust jacket with a few shallow chips to crown, and a band of dampstaining along the bottom edge of the rear panel. Translated from the original Russian by John Cournos, with his foreword.$25.00Moscow: Foreign Language Publishing House (nd). First printing of this edition. 143 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a chip to crown and a short tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Translated from the original Russian by O.A. Gorchakov.$25.00Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House (nd). First printing of this edition. 438 pp. Two tape shadows to each cover, slight lean to spine. In all, very good plus in very good dust jacket with several short edge tears, and tape reinforcement along the verso of the top and bottom edges. Translated from the original Russian by Ivy Litvinova.$35.00NY: Century, 1916. Later printing. 374 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two edge tears, shallow chipping to base of spine, and publisher’s price stamps on front panel and spine.$75.00NY: Harper & Row (1986). First US edition. 880 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Robert Chandler.
$100.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. The original Russian poem, with Heaney’s facing English translation. Arion Press publisher Andrew Hoyem contributes an introduction, and Olga Carlisle a note on the Russian. One of 400 copies.
$150.00Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1987. First edition. 452 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Paul Schmidt. Edited by Charlotte Douglas. One hundred and seventeen letters by the Russian Futurist appear here in English translation for the first time. Illustrated.$15.00NY: Simon and Schuster (1980). First US edition. 348 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Linda Aldwinckle.$35.00Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House (nd). First printing of this edition. 381 pp. Top edge lightly soiled, one small corner bump, else near fine in very good dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, and tips of flap folds. Translated from the original Russian by Stepan Apresyan.$25.00NY: L.B. Fischer, 1944. First US edition. 510 pp. Near fine in good only dust jacket that has been reinforced with heavy tape (shows through on flaps and lighter pigments). Jacket art by George Salter. Translated from the original Russian by Norbert Guterman.$250.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1936). First US edition. 444 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine and tips of flap folds. Translated from the original Russian by Alec Brown. Stamped “Review Copy” with price and publication date on the front free endpaper.$40.00NY: Persea Books (1977). First edition. 117 pp w/index to titles. Some light foxing along top edge, else near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small stains to the front panel. Poems translated from the original Russian by Bernard Meares. Introductory essay by Joseph Brodsky.$20.00London: Menard/King’s, 1992. First edition. 42 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Russian by Maria Enzensberger. Forward and afterword by Elaine Feinstein. Illustrated.$20.00San Francisco: North Point, 1986. First edition. 249 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Russian by Clarence Brown with critical essays.$35.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008). First edition. xxvii + 272 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Michael Almereyda, with his introduction.$35.00Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press (1975). First printing of this edition. 317 pp. Fine in full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Patricia Blake, with her introduction. Original Russian with facing English translations by Max Hayward and George Reavey.$12.50NY: Pantheon (1959). First US edition. 191 pp w/notes. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunning to spine and light wear to crown. Translated from the original Russian by David Magarshack with his preface and notes. Essay on “Translating Shakespeare” translated by Manya Harari.$35.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1962. First US edition. xiv + 250 pp w/notes. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Original Russian poem with facing English translations by Henry Kamen. Foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra and Notes by George Katkov.$25.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969. First edition. [12 pp]. Very good in sewn wrappers. One of 900 copies. Translated from the original Russian by George L. Kline. INSCRIBED by Kline on the title page, “For Clarence + Nancy / Warmest wishes, / G.”$45.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Translated from the Russian by George L. Kline. One of 100 hand-bound copies.