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GARCIA LORCA, Federico.
Cinq romances gitanes, texte espagnol et traduction par Guy Lévis-Mano.
[Paris], GLM, [1939].
First edition, one of 475 numbered copies, of translations into French by Guy Lévis-Mano of five poems from the Romancero gitano: ‘Saint Gabriel’, ‘La casada infiel’, ‘Romance sonámbulo’, ‘Romance de la Guardia Civil española’ and ‘Romance de la luna, luna’.
£100
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel, and Avellí ARTÍS-GENER, translator.
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Barcelona, Edhasa, 1970.
First edition of Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude in Catalan, translated by the journalist, translator, and writer Avellí Artís-Gener (1912–2000).
£150
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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel.
‘El Olor de la Guayaba.’ Conversaciones con Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.
Bogotá, La Oveja Negra, 1982.
First edition, published simultaneously in Colombia, Spain and Mexico. A series of interviews with García Márquez in which he discusses his family, his friends, his enemies, his work, his views on politics, etc.
£150
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GIONO, Jean.
Colline.
Paris, Bernard Grasset, Les Cahiers Verts, 1929.
First edition of Giono’s first book, one of 170 numbered copies on vélin pur fil; it forms the first part of his successful ‘Pan trilogy’ with Un de Baumugnes (1929) and Regain (1930).
£450
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
[Cover title:] Byvshie liudi [Former people, translated...
St Petersburg, “Znanie”, 1906.
First edition in book form, very rare, of Gorky’s powerful, darkly comic fable.
£1500
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Zhaloby [Complaints].
N.p., Rabochee Knigoizdatel’stvo, 1916.
An ephemeral publication of a short story by Gorky, first published in four parts in Berlin, 1910-1911.
£200
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
V stepi. – Druzhki [On the Steppes. – The friends].
Moscow, “Rodnaia rech’”, 1916
An ephemeral edition of two early short stories by Gorky.
£200
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
V Amerike. Ocherki [In America. Sketches].
Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow Verlag, [1918].
Second edition (first 1906): Gorky’s impressions of America after his visit there in 1906 to collect funds for the Party.
£300
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GOR’KII, Maxim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Katalog izdatel’stva “Vsemirnaia Literatura” pri narodnom...
St Petersburg, “Vsemirnaia Literatura”, 1919.
A catalogue marking the launch of a series of popular editions of the classics of world literature by the publishing house ‘Vsemirnaia Literatura’ (‘World Literature’), established by Gorky in 1919.
£650
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[GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV], and Nikolai Stepanovich GUMILEV.]
Ballady o Robin Gude...
St Petersburg, “Vsemirnaia Literatura”, 1919.
First edition, very rare, of a collection of translations of twelve popular songs featuring Robin Hood, published in the early Soviet series Vsemirnaia Literaura (‘Worldwide Literature’), edited by Gumilev and with a ten-page introduction by Gorky.
£900
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Delo Artamonovykh [The Artamonov business].
Berlin, “Kniga”, 1925.
First edition. ‘[Gorky’s] best novel, The Artamonov Business (1925), follows the Artamonovs through three generations, from the uneducated grandfather, a strong and enterprising, lusty patriarch who starts a small factory and builds it into a major industrial plant, to a grandson, an intellectual...
£450
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GOR’KII, Maksim, pseud. [Aleksei Maksimovich PESHKOV].
Starik. P’esa [The old man. A play].
Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow, [1921].
First edition, written 1915, but not premiered until New Year’s Day 1919.
£250
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[LUNACHARSKII, Anatolii Vasilievich, and Sergei Mitrofanovich GORODETSKII, editors.]
Styk. Pervyi sbornik stikhov Moskovskogo Tsekha...
Moscow, Moscow Guild of Poets, 1925.
First edition of an anthology edited by Lunacharsky and Gorodetsky, including poems by Pavel Antokolsky, Bryusov, Bely, Pasternak, Aleksandr Shiryaevet, Mikhail Zenkevich, and others. Pasternak’s contribution, ‘Spektorskii’, was first published complete in book form in 1931.
£250
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GORODETSKII, Sergei Mitrofanovich.
Iva. Piataia kniga stikhov [Willow. A fifth book of verse].
St Petersburg, ‘Shipovnik’, 1913.
First edition. Well received by the critics, this, the fifth collection from the co-founder of the Poets’ Guild and Acmeist movement, includes poems about the life of religious wanderers, pilgrims and the world of monasteries, as well as several children’s stories. Of his friend and collaborator,...
£200
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GRASS, Günter.
Gleisdreieck.
Darmstadt, Luchterhand, 1960.
Rare first edition of this volume of poems with Grass’s own drawings.
£100
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GRASS, Günter.
Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen des Autors.
Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 1965.
First edition.
£75
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GRASS, Günter.
The Danzig Trilogy [The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years].
New York, Pantheon & Harcourt Brace & World, 1962-65.
First US editions, all translated by Ralph Manheim, and first published in the original German in 1959, 1961 and 1963.
£500
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GRASS, Günter.
Selected Poems … With translations from the German by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton.
New York, Harcourt Brace & World Inc., 1966.
First US edition, with the original German on facing pages, of poems originally appearing in Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (1956) and Gleisdreieck (1960).
£50
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GRIGOROVICH, Dmitrii Vasil’evich.
Povesti i razskazy … Chast’ pervaia [– shestaia] [Stories and tales. Part I [– VI]].
Moscow, E. Barfknekht, 1858, & V. Grachev, 1859.
First collected edition of Grigorovich’s fiction, including the important stories Derevnia (The Village, 1846), Anton Goremyka (1847), Rybaki (The Fishermen, 1853) and Shkola gostepriimstva (The School of Hospitality, 1855).
£2000
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GUMILEV, Nikolai Stepanovich.
Shater. Stikhi [The tent. Verses].
Revel [i.e. Tallinn], ‘Bibliofil’, [1921].
First illustrated edition. ‘The publishing house claims that this edition was made from the manuscript handed over by Gumilev in June 1921, the year he was arrested and executed. It contains more material than the [first edition published the same year]’ (Kilgour 427, note).
£250