RUSSIAN - Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 106. MELNIKOVA-PAPOUSHKOVA, N. F. (editor).
Antologiya russkoi poezii XX stoletiya [Anthology of Russian Poetry of the Twentieth Century]. Prague: “Nasha Rech,” 1920-19. 2 volumes Small
8vo (140 x 190 mm). Volume I rebound in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with the original lettered tan wrappers bound in;
Volume II in the original lettered tan wrappers. Condition: Volume I with minor rubbing to board edges, library sticker over spine, rubber
stamps to title page and following leaf; wrappers slightly soiled and backstrip chipped with some loss to Volume II.
With contributions by Anna Akhmatova, Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Zinaida Gippius, Fedor
Sologub, Viktor Solovev, Igor Sveryanin, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. (2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 107. “MISS” [Anna Vladimirovna Remizova].
Kupidonovy prokazy. Les Avantures galantes. St. Petersburg: M. G. Kornfeld, 1913. 82pp. Oblong folio (260 x 255 mm). Original half cloth
over decorated boards with cover label, decorated endpapers. Condition: some staining and spotting to boards, hinges tender, some minor
repairs.
elegant album of pictures in the manner of aubrey beardsley and konstantin somov. Remizova (née Vasileva) was the sister of
the famous cartoonist “Re-Mi” (Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov, 1887-1975). The two worked for Sverchok [Cricket] until 1908; afterwards
she was a regular contributor to the famous humor magazine Satirikon. She was also a stage designer. Beardsley had an enormous impact on
the graphic artists of the Silver Age including Somov and “Miss.” These delicate line drawings appeared in Russian periodicals before being
collected in this book. This copy includes numerous clippings of other pictures by this artist taken from magazines and newspapers as late
as 1917 and tipped in the blank areas.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 107
Lot 108. NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977).
Zaschita luzhina. Roman [Luzhin’s Defense. A Novel]. Berlin: “Slovo,” 1930. 236 pp. 8vo (200 x 135 mm). Publisher’s blue cloth. Condition:
covers soiled and dampstained, spine extremities split and chipped, front hinge cracked, corners frayed.
rare first edition of the master’s third novel. First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski [Contemporary Annals], Numbers 40-42 (1929-
1930). “That novel alone would suffice to give M. Sirin a very oustanding place in contemporary world literature”—The New York Times Book
Review (May 20, 1934). Nabokov did not get around to translating (with Michael Sammel) his novel as The Defense until 1964. Difficult to
find in any condition. Field 0666.
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$500 – $800
Lot 109. NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977).
Drugie berega [Other Stories]. New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1954. 270 pp. 8vo (230 x 140 mm). Original gray wrappers. Condition:
light soiling and dampstain to wrappers.
first edition in russian of nabokov’s classic memoir. Originally published in English as Conclusive Evidence (1951), Nabokov revised
the text with new observations and expanded passages for his Russian readers. Nabokov did the translation himself. The book was serialized
in Opyty [Essays], Number 3, 1954; and Novyi Zhurnal [The New Journal], Numbers 37 and 38, 1954. He further revised and expanded his
memoir in its final form Speak, Memory (1967). Field 1097.
$500 – $800
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