Showing 1–32 of 100 results
-
$35.00London: Penguin (1969). First paperback printing. 111 pp w/index of poems, cycles and first lines. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translations by Richard McKane, with his introduction. Essay by Andrei Sinyavsky.$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.$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.$40.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1979). First US edition. xxx + 133 pp w/appendixes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Gerald Janecek. Preliminary remarks, notes, and comments by Nina Berberova. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate.$20.00Mill Valley: D’Aurora Press, 1977. First edition. 16mo. [66 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems translated from the original Russian by Jack Hirschman.$45.00NY: New Directions (2001). First edition. xiv + 175 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Marian Schwartz, with her introduction. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover, and three line note in light pencil on the verso of a late leaf.$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.”$35.00Moscow: Progress (1981). First edition. 326 pp w/notes. Fine in full orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Erratum slip present. Introduction by Pavel Antokolsky. Translations from the original Russian by Alex Miller.$25.00Preston: Akros Publication, 1968. First edition. 14 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Translations by Robin Fulton.$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1980). First edition. 151 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translations by Richard Wilbur, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Hecht, among others.$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.$45.00NY: New Directions (1985). First edition. xv + 158 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a vertical band of offsetting to front and rear covers. Two plays translated from the original Russian by Mirra Ginsburg, with her introduction. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover.$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: Knopf, 2020. First edition. xii + 508 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with a preface by Richard Pevear.$25.00NY: Lear (1948). First US edition. 235 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine and two chips to top edge of the front panel. Introduction by Matthew Josephson.$75.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1990). First US edition. 135 pp. Pages lightly toned, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova. Sun & Moon Classics: 9.$50.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1994). First US edition. 166 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Russian by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova. Sun & Moon Classics: 29.$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.$25.00NY & Washington: Praeger (1972). First US edition. xvii + 265 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Russian by Moura Budberg, with her introduction.$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.
$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.$100.00Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1987. First edition. 452 pp w/index. Two lower corners bumped, else near fine in near 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. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.$25.00Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications (1995). First edition. Single long sheet accordion-folded (7 x 4 3/4 inches, closed), housed in a printed sleeve. Both elements fine. One of 300 numbered copies. Translated by Edwin Morgan with an illustration by Stephen Duncalf. Under the Moon Series 2/2.$35.00Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 1985. First edition. vi + 255 pp w/chronology & index. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear along bottom edge and tips of flap folds. Translated from the original Russian by Paul Schmidt. Edited by Charlotte Douglas.$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.$35.00NY: Alef Books (1995). First edition. 63 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated by Kit Robinson with his introduction. Original Russian poems beneath the English translations. SIGNED by Robinson.