Rare Books from Biblionne

First Russian edition of this translation. First complete Russian translation of the book.Second and last Joyce's lifetime edition in Russia in book format. One of 10 000 copies printed. The copy has a printing mistake, pages 225-240 were printed twice instead of 209-224. The novel was translated by 'Ivan Kashkin's workshop school'. Kashkin was the founder of his own school of literary translation. There… Read more about this item

Limited to 1430 copies. This story by a well-known writer Emily Mindlin (1900-1981), is devoted to an older man who came to look at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction, the largest hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River. The station was built in two stages. DniproHES-1 was initially built between 1927-1932 but was destroyed during WWII to make the river… Read more about this item

The original drawing for Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding (1946). It depicts the main character, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams. Her image reminds an actress Julie Harris, who played Frankie in the movie The Member of the Wedding (1952).

Vladivostok, Uliss, 1991. Limited to 20 000 copies. First Russian edition of first Dylan's book. Tarantula, an experimental prose and poetry collection in stream-of-consciousness style, was written in 1965–1966. The publishing process was interrupted because of the Dylan's motorcycle accident. First copies appeared by underground press in the middle of 1965. First official edition was issued only in 1971. In 2003… Read more about this item

Handwritten miniature children's magazine created by an unknown child. Issues includes fairy tales, short stories, verses (by Russian children's poets), riddles, rebuses, magazine subscriber's drawings and 'readers' letters'. According to these letters, a child made this magazine in a countryside, where she/he spent summer holidays. In 'Our Post' column a child wrote that she/ he missed his friends, who was… Read more about this item

One of 200 copies printed. Extremely rare provincial film poster for Othello (1922) for the German silent film directed by later Hollywood émigré, the originally Ukrainian Dmitriy Bukhoveckiy (Dimitri Buchowetzki; 1885–1932). He emigrated from Soviet Ukraine in 1919 and worked as a director and screenwriter in Europe and USA at Paramount and MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. It was the second German Othello film… Read more about this item

One of two first editions of Wells's The War That Will End War (1914) published in 1915 in Russia. The only edition of this translation. Signed and inscribed by the translator, an employee of the Petrograd Military Censorship Commission and staff captain Grigoriy Nazarov to colleague, lieutenant Medar: 'For lieutenant Medar, military censorship officer in the memory from the translator… Read more about this item