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Attractive collection of 14 chromolithographs kept in their original envelope and depicting traditional Russian figures and their occupations, such as bird hunting, fox hunting, fishing, mushrooms picking and wheat harvest.
Bogatov (1854 - 1935), Russian artist and graphic, worked in lithography, as well as painting landscapes and portraits and creating illustrations for Russian classics and folklore.
ProvenanceAvenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a very large library of Russian works of all kinds).

Description
14 chromolithographs, including 6 signed "N.B.", pasted on original cards with printed captions, kept in small paper sleeve; two slightly chipped, very light foxing on margins, covers of the sleeve split, with marginal tears. Overall dimensions: 16.5 x 11.4 cm.

A FINE EXAMPLE OF A UKRAINIAN ARTISTIC AND ACADEMIC COLLABORATION, CELEBRATING - UNDER THE RUSSIAN RULE - THE COUNTRY HISTORY AND PAST GLORY.Evarnitskii (Dmytro Yavornytsky, 1855-1940) was a knowledgeable historian, ethnographer and lexicographer with marked pro-Ukrainian tendencies. He used for the present publication both primary and archival sources in his research, and a selection of them was later published as 'Istochniki dlia istorii zaporozhskykh kozakov' (Sources for the History of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, in 1903). He then became, in 1902, director of the Museum of Antiquities of Katerynoslav Gubernia (later the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum).His text mainly develops, in Russian and French, biographies of important Ukrainian figures, and is illustrated through the collaboration between two of the best artists and book illustrators of the period, both also Ukrainian. Samokish's style in the present work echoes one of his masterpieces, the celebrated 4-volume 'Tsarskaia Okhota' [Imperial… Read More

Great two-volume émigré collection of poetry and analysis, in an attractive example in the original wrappers.
The first volume is a roll call of major émigré names, from Remizov, through Kuprin, to Teffi; it also contains one of the earliest, if not the earliest appearance of Nabokov's work in the West, published just a few months after he went into exile. His poem Panikhida [Requiem], written whilst Nabokov was at Cambridge, is a lament for his lost homeland. Interestingly, in all modern editions the poem is recorded as being written in 1920, but here is dated to the previous year.The second volume contains work by such masters as Balmont, Bunin, Chukovskii, and Voloshin - with an essay by Roerich to the memory of Leonid Andreev. It also contains what appears to be the first publication of Blok's Dvenadsat' outside of Russia.
Publihsed in New York, these two volumes were among the very first post-revolutionary collections of contemporary Russian poetry published anywhere, and together can be… Read More

An attractive, fresh example of this scarce first edition. This is the first book by Nabokov published outside Russia, and his first collection of poems published commercially.
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DescriptionSmall 8vo (16.2 x 12.2 cm). [3]-64 pp. incl. leaf with publisher's device, title and section title.BindingOriginal publisher's printed wrappers, with original staples.ConditionWrappers slightly soiled or stained, just a bit discoloured, spine foot a bit chipped with small splits to lower hinges, lower cover with small trace of paper label and small marginal closed tear; without the first blank leaf (pp. [1-2]) and except a couple of very minor pencil marks a very fresh copy internally.BibliographyJuliar A5.1 ref: [2073]

Very rare: we could not find any examples of Nabokov in samizdat in the West, and only one example of Nabokov's samizdat poetry at auction in Russia.With nice provenance.
This samizdat selection of poems by Nabokov from 1918-1939 is copied from the illegal in the USSR, large edition of his collected Russian poems Stikhi [Poetry] (1979, Ardis, Ann Arbor), which was prepared by the author himself and finalised by his wife Vera after his death in 1977. Nabokov, who "for a long time considered himself first and foremost as a poet" (Malikova), left a considerable poetic legacy: his "almost complete edition of poetry" (Vera Nabokov), Stikhi, consists of almost 250 poems, from which the author of this samizdat chose 40, and even added a title and a table of content for this smaller, 'home edition' for personal use. A couple of titles in French is also added in text manually for the author may not have had any Latin type.
Most of the selected poems describe narrator's longing for home, reflections about… Read More

The Pantheon of the Silver Age - a complete set.
Scarce complete set of all five issues of this important almanac, which printed, often for the first time, the works of censored Russian authors. As a result, it includes most of the best Russian authors and poets of the 20th century.Contents include especially:- Vol. I: Akhmatova, Poema bez geroia [Poem Without a Hero]: the first publication of Akhmatova's major work- Vol. II: 57 poems by Mandelshtam, and Nabokov, Two poems- Vol. III: Akhmatova, Nas chetvero ['Us Four', dedicated to Tsvetaeva), Mandelshtam, Tri epigrammy; Four novellas by Babel - Vol. IV: Pasternak, notes for the fantasy 'Poema o blizhnem'; Akhmatova, essay on Mandelshtam; Brodsky, Poems, Mandelshtam, Poems; with portraits plates of Pasternak, Akhmatova, Vsevolod Meyerhold; Stenograph from the first trial of Iosif Brodsky- Vol. V: Tsvetaeva, Perekop, Posmertny Podarok, Autobiography; Brodsky, Poems; Nabokov, poems.
ProvenanceRobert Eden Martin (b. 1940; American lawyer and noted… Read More