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Title page: THE ART OF | MAHLON BLAINE | A Reminiscence | by G. Legman | with a Mahlon Blaine bibliography | compiled by Roland Trenary | {Blaine’s fac-simile} | Peregrine Books | 1982 || Pagination: [1-4] 5-26 + 84 pp. of illustrations, unpaginated. Collation: 13 leaves of text, 40 leaves of b/w plates, and 2 leaves of colour plates, 55 leaves total. Binding: 29 x 22.5 cm; publisher’s black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Edition: Limited edition of 100 copies (this is №100), signed by Gelman, Trenary, and Arrington. Contributors: Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator. Legman, Gershon (American, 1917 – 1999) – author. Arrington, Robert L. (American, 1984 – 2015) – author, introduction. Trenary, Roland (American) – author, compiler. Peregrine Books (East Lansing, MI) – publisher. -
An essay by Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) about a poem Жди меня (Wait for Me, Zhdi menia) written by Konstantin Simonov [Константин Михайлович Симонов] (Russian, 1915 – 1979) in August 1941. Magazine, softcover, publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.5 cm, collated 16mo: [1]-916 (total 144 leaves), pp.: [2] 3-286 [2] (total 288 pages). Bimonthly (6 times a year) magazine "Вопросы литературы" (Questions of Literature, Voprosy literatury) published from 1957; circulation of 15,640 copies. Editor-in-Chief (1979-87): Мстислав Борисович Козьмин (Russian, 1920 – 1992). -
Hardcover volume, 21.5 x 14.7 x 5.7 cm, bound in red cloth with blind-stamped ms signature to front board and gilt lettering over black labels, and gild design elements to spine; pp.: [i-iv] (h.t./blank, t.p./copyright) v-xv[xvi] blank, [1-2] f.t./blank, 3-1653 [1654] blank, [2] publ. note/blank; 1672 pp total; Blue ink ms inscription to h.t. 'Lawrence Wyman'. Title-page (in a two-rule frame): THE COMPLETE WORKS OF | O. Henry | Foreword by | WILLIAM LYON PHELPS | AUTHENTIC EDITION | {publisher’s device, G.C.P.} | De Luxe Edition | — | Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. | GARDEN CITY NEW YORK || Contributors: O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (American, 1862 – 1910) – author. William Lyon Phelps (American, 1865 – 1943) – author/foreword. -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 14.8 cm, bound in grey buckram, gilt lettering in an ornamental frame to front and spine, blind-stamped lettering to back; pp.: [1-2] 3-364 [4], collated 8vo:1-238, total 184 leaves, 368 pages. Title-page: ЛЕНИНГАДСКИЙ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА | И ОРДЕНА ТРУДОВОГО КРАСНОГО ЗНАМЕНИ | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ИМЕНИ А. А. ЖДАНОВА | {in two-compartment frame: В. Я. ПРОПП {within a compartment} | ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ КОРНИ ВОЛШЕБНОЙ СКАЗКИ {within a compartment} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА | ЛЕНИНГРАД 1986 || Print run: 25,000 copies. Edition: 2nd edition; for the 1st edition, see [LIB-3184.2023] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки. — Л.: ЛГУ, 1946. English title: [LIB-1615.2018] The historical roots of the fairy tale. Contributors: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп [Vladimir Propp] (Russian, 1895 – 1970) -
Description: 24.4 x 15.9 cm, softcover in-8vo, light-green publisher's wrappers, lettered in black to both covers and and spine; bookplate pasted to verso of the front wrapper: “LE GÉNIE DE LA GRAVURE | CONSOLE LE GÉNIE DU DESSIN | {vignette} | BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CLAUDETTE HOULD || Title-page: ÉCOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES — IVe SECTION | Sciences historiques et philologiques | — | VI | HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION DU LIVRE | 18 | CHRISTIAN MICHEL | CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN | ET LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ | AU XVIIIe SIÈCLE | Avec un catalogue raisonné des | livres illustrés par Cochin | 1735-1790 | Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centre national | de la Recherche scientifique | {device} | GENÈVE | LIBRAIRIE DROZ | 11, rue Massot | 1987 ||; front wrapper also has in the bottom: Librairie CHAMPION, 7 quai Malaquais – Paris || Collation: 8vo; [1]-258, 26 leaves of plates (fig. 1-169) extraneous to collation, 26+[27]14 288; plates: unpaginated photo reproduction of Cochin’s 169 drawings and engravings; quire 27 unsigned, together with quire 26 makes 14 leaves. Pagination: [i-vii] viii-x, [1] 2-431 [423 colophon] [2 blank], 26 leaves of plates. Provenance: Claudette Hould, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, spécialiste d’histoire de l’art français. Ref.: British Museum. Publisher: Droz Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715 – 1790) See Cochin's illustrated books in this collection: LIB-2941.2021, LIB-2766.2021; LIB-2640.2021; LIB-2529.2020. -
Paperback reprint on demand, 28 x 22 cm, in green malachite wrappers with yellow lettering to both covers; pp. [i-ii] iii-v[vi] 1-122 [4]. Title-page: Okhrana | The Paris Operations of | the Russian Imperial Police | Ben B. Fischer | History Staff | Center for the Study | of Intelligence | Central Intelligence Agency | 1997 || ISBN-10: 1907521992 Benjamin B. Fischer Contents. Foreword. Preface. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police. From Paris to Palo Alto. CIA Interest in the Okhrana Files. Origins of the Okhrana and Its Paris Office. Foreign Operations. Change and Continuity Dramatis Personae Conclusions Rita T. Kronenbitter Paris Okhrana 1885-1905. The Illustrious Career of Arkadiy Harting. The Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution. Okhrana Agent Dolin. The Okhrana's Female Agents: Part I: Russian Women. The Okhrana's Female Agents: Part II: Indigenous Recruits. Review of Edward Ellis Smith, The Young Stalin, by Harry Gelman. Commentary by Rita T. Kronenbitter. -
Front wrapper (in black and red in a red frame): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР | ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА — {СК} (white stylized letters on red background) | СВОДНЫЙ | КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ | НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ | ПЕЧАТИ XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | МОСКВА 1982 || Title page: ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР| СВОДНЫЙ КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ ПЕЧАТИ | XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | 2-Е ДОПОЛНЕННОЕ И ПЕРЕРАБОТАННОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ | Часть 3. Приложения. | Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников | МОСКВА 1982 || Publisher’s wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, lettering to front and spine; pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, 3-242 [4] – incl. contents, imprint, and errata, [2] – blanks. Print run 1,250 copies. Науч. ред.: Итенберг, Борис Самуилович (Russian, 1921 – 2016). «Сводный каталог русской нелегальной и запрещенной печати XIX века. Книги и периодические издания» состоит из трех частей: Часть 1. Книги А–М. (№ 1–1158) [LIB-2648.2021] Часть 2. Книги Н–Я. Периодические издания (№ 1159–2576) [LIB-2660.2021] Часть 3-я. Приложения. Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников. -
A pictorial photographic album, 19.5 x 15.3 cm, hardcover, paper pictorial covers, pictorial endpapers, pp. [2] 3-39 [40]; total 20 leaves; text by Susan Jacobasch, photographs by Josef Breitenbach. Published in connection with the exhibition "Josef Breitenbach" on October, 10 – November 28, 1998, at Galerie Bodo Niemann in Berlin. Josef Breitenbach (Jewish-German-American, 1896 – 1984). -
Photographic half-length portrait of academician Juri Lotman, with his head turned to the left, giving a lecture in front of a blackboard. Pencil-signed on the mat: 5/45 • ©Mikhail Lemkhin; on the back of the print: ink stamp ©MIKHAIL LEMKHIN, pencil inscription Mikhail Lemkhin 5/45; ink stamp: PHOTO BY MIKHAIL LEMKHIN | 1811–38th AVENUE | SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122 | (415) 664-7677; Copyright statement ink stamp; on the back of the mat: pencil inscription (top) ЛОТМАН, ЮРИЙ | YURI LOTMAN, (bottom) VI. Size: mat: 35.6 x 43.1 cm; window: 15.5 x 24 cm; print: 20.2 x 25.3 cm. Limited edition of 45, of which this is № 5, signed and stamped by the artist. Sitter: Juri Lotman [Юрий Михайлович Лотман] (Estonian-Jewish, 1922 – 1993). -
Title page: BOOKLEGGERS | AND | SMUTHOUNDS | THE TRADE IN EROTICA, 1920-1940 | JAY A. GERTZMAN | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS • PHILADELPHIA || Pagination: [8] [1] 2-418 [6] blanks, total 216 leaves. Binding: 24.5 x 16 cm; black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. -
Softcover, 21.5 x 17 cm, glossy pictorial wrappers, pp.: [2] 3-[52] [53-88] 89-90 [2]; total 92 pages, incl. 18 leaves of plates within collation, not paginated. -
Paperback, 21.5 x 13.6 cm, red and white original wrappers with black lettering, barcode label to front, previous owner’s black ink ms to h.t. Rene Shekerjian; pp.: [i-vii] viii-xxvi[1-3] 4-158 (total 184 pp.). Title-page: Morphology | of the | Folktale | by | V. Propp | First Edition Translated by Lawrence Scott with an Introduction by Svatava Pirkova-Jacobson | Second Edition Revised and Edited with a Preface by Louis A. Warner/New Introduction by Alan Dundes | University of Texas Press • Austin and London || Serial title: American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series | Volume 9/Revised Edition/1968 | [blank] Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, | and Linguistics | Publication 10/Revised Edition/1968 || Edition: 7th paperback printing. Contributors: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп [Vladimir Propp] (Russian, 1895 – 1970) For other editions, see [LIB-1710.2019] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки (2-е изд.) — Л.: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1986; [LIB-3184.2023] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки (1-е изд.) — Л.: Изд-во Ленинградского ун-та, 1946, and [LIB-1718.2019] В. Я. Пропп. Морфология сказки / Серия: Вопросы поэтики, вып. XII. — Л.: Academia, 1928. -
Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.2 cm; publisher's original green cloth with black and gilt lettering to front and spine; pictorial endpapers. Gift ms inscription from Irina Komarova to Yury and Elvina Varshavsky to front free endpaper's verso: "Прослышав, что теперь для Юры / Нет ничего милей гравюры, / Литературу я отныне / Дарю из принципа Эльвине! / И. / Февраль 86". Pp.: [2] 3-477 [3], collation 16mo: 1-1516 (total 240 leaves) plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: Джон Фаулз | ПОДРУГА | ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ЛЕЙТЕНАНТА | РОМАН | Перевод с английского | М. Беккер и И. Комаровой | под редакцией Н. Рахмановой | {vignette} | {publisher’s device} | ЛЕНИНГРАД | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ• 1985 || T.p. verso: […] | JOHN FOWLES | THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN | Вступительная статья А. ДОЛИНИНА | Примечания М. БЕККЕР | Оформление художников | Н. ВАСИЛЬЕВА и Э. КАПЕЛЮША | […] || Contributors: Беккер, Мэри Иосифовна (Russian, 1920 – 2010) Комарова, Ирина Бенедиктовна (Russian, b. 1933) Рахманова, Наталия Леонидовна (Russian, b. 1930) -
One volume 22.3 x 14.4 cm, green buckram, gilt lettering to spine, Brooklyn public library copy with stamps and sticker; [i-iv] v-xi [xii blank], [1-2] 3-144 [4 blank], total 160 pages, 80 leaves; 620 entries + index. Title-page (vertical double-rule, left indent): CHODERLOS de LACLOS | The Man, His Works, and His Critics | An Annotated Bibliography | Colette Verger Michael | {publisher’s device} | GARLAND PUBLISHING INC. • NEW YORK & LONDON | 1982 || Contributors: Michael, Colette Verger (American, b. 1937) Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François (French, 1741 – 1803) – author. Ref.: WorldCat. -
Photographic portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky, head, hand, and shoulder, three-quarters to the left, wearing glasses and with a cigarette. Pencil-signed on the mat: 5/45 • Mikhail Lemkhin; same inscription on the back of the print, and ink stamp ©Mikhail Lemkhin. Sitter: Joseph Brodsky [Иосиф Александрович Бродский ] (Russian-American-Jewish, 1940 – 1996). Size: mat: 41 x 51 cm; window: 27 x 30 cm; print: 27.7 x 35.4 cm. -
![Bayros Zeichnungen. — Gala Verlag, Hamburg fur Fourier Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden, 1987. — pp. 207. — 233 illustrations, essay by Wilhelm M. Busch. [Franz von Bayros Drawings].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2245.2019-a-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
26 x 18 cm, black cloth, white lettering to cover and spine, pictorial DJ, pp. [1-4] 5-207 [208 colophon], 233 b/w illustrations; essay by Wilhelm M. Busch. -
Description: Hardcover oblong volume 16 x 23.3 cm with black pictorial paper boards lettered in red and white to front cover and spine, in an ochre slipcase sprinkled brown and lettered in black to front and spine; grey endpapers, pp. [2] 3-130 [2], with a bookshop ticket to back pastedown “ISSHINDō”. Illustrated descriptions of 100 Japanese sword handguards (tsuba) with brass inlay. Title-page: 楽しい真鍮象嵌つば | 100 鐔 | 大谷定夫著 [Tanoshii Shinchū-Zōgan Tsuba | Hyakutan | Ōya Sadao cho] (Enjoying Brass Inlay Sword Guards | 100 Sword Guards | Author: Ōya Sadao) Colophon: Published December 15, 1999 Price: ¥3,800 (base price ¥3,619) Author: Ōya Sadao (大谷定夫) Producer: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha International Publisher: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha Co. Ltd. (大塚工藝社)Phone 103–0016 Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Nihonbashi Koami-chō 1–5 Tel. 03–5642–3511 (Representative) Fax 03–5642–3618 Design: Takahashi Tōru (高橋享) Photography: Kitami Noboru (北見登) Kishioka Yasuhiro (岸岡保弘) ISBN4–900298–03–4 C0072 ¥3619E Subject: Ōnin tsuba; Heianjō tsuba; Suemon-zōgan; Ten-zōgan; Japanese sword handguards; Japanese sword fittings; Tosogu. -
Hardcover, 28.8 x 22.3 cm, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [i-iv] v-xiv, 1-274, total 288 pp., ils. ISBN: 9780521392228, 9780521457330, 0521392225, 0521457335. Title-page: COLOR | AND | MEANING | Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting | MARCIA B. HALL | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Cambridge | New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney || Marcia B. Hall (American, b. 1939) -
Title (black and red): ДЖЕЙМС МАКФЕРСОН | ПОЭМЫ ОССИАНА | {device} | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛ | Ю. Д. ЛЕВИН | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1983 || Title verso: РЕДАКЦИОННАЯ КОЛЛЕГИЯ СЕРИИ | «ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ ПАМЯТНИКИ» | (list of names) | Ответственный редактор | академик М. П. АЛЕКСЕЕВ (in frame) | Редактор перевода | Э. Л. ЛИНЕЦКАЯ. Frontispiece (black and red): JAMES MACPHERSON | THE POEMS OF OSSIAN | {device} || Print run: 30,000 copies. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-378. Pagination: [1, 2] – serial h.t. / frontis.] [3, 4] – t.p. / editorial board] [portrait / blank] [5, 6] – original t.p. fac-simile / text, 7–589 [590] – imprint, [2] – advert.; 3 leaves of plates. Binding: serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine. Джеймс Макферсон. Поэмы Оссиана. Ю. Д. Левин. Э. Л. Линецкая. -
![Gordon N. Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 (2 vol. set). — NY, London: The Pierpont Morgan Library; Cornell University Press, 1982. — pp.: vol.1: [8] ix-xxxii, [2] 3-245 [3]; vol.2: [8] 247-557 [5], illustr.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2424.2020-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
Title page: The Art of the | French Illustrated Book | 1700 to 1914 | VOLUME I (II) | Gordon N. Ray | The Pierpont Morgan Library | Cornell University Press || Pagination: vol.1: [8] ix-xxxii, [2] 3-245 [3], illustr.; vol.2: [8] 247-557 [5], illustr. Both volumes paginater through out. Binding: 30.5 x 23.5 cm, two volumes uniformly bound in red cloth, gilt vignette to front cover, gilt lettering to spine; bookplate to front pastedown, ex-lib (Sweet Briar College Library) Contributors: Ray, Gordon Norton (American, 1915 – 1986) – author. Lange, Thomas V. – formal bibliographical description. Passela, Charles V. – photography. The Pierpont Morgan Library – Copyright © 1982 -
French and English lithography of the first half of the 19th century: Selected sheets from the collection of Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). New acquisitions at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow). Выпущено по заказу ГМИИ им. А. С. Пушкина; вступ. статьи В. А. Мишина и Ю. С. Варшавского; составитель каталога В. А. Мишин. (Produced under order of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow); introduction by V. A. Mishin and Yury Varshavsky). Softcover, glossy pictorial wrappers, 21.5 x 17 cm, 25 leaves, not paginated, frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates, 50 entries. Title-page: | — | ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ И АНГЛИЙСКАЯ | ЛИТОГРАФИЯ | ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ | XIX ВЕКА | ИЗБРАННЫЕ ЛИСТЫ ИЗ КОЛЛЕКЦИИ С.П. ВАРШАВСКОГО | — | НОВЫЕ ПОСТУПЛЕНИЯ | В ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ МУЗЕЙ | ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНЫХ | ИСКУССТВ | ИМЕНИ А. С. ПУШКИНА | {publisher’s device} | Москва | Советский художник | 1985 || -
Hardcover volume, 25.3 x 19.6 cm, bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, crimson endpapers, pp.: [1-4] 5-160, ils. Title-page: THE MAN WHO MADE PARIS | PARIS | THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF | GEORGES-EUGENE HAUSSMANN | WILLET WEEKS | Photographer of | scenes of Paris today | JEAN-CLAUDE MARTIN | (in frame) LONDON / HOUSE || Contributors: Willet Weeks (American)– author. Jean-Claude Martin (French-American) – photographer. Georges Eugène Haussmann (French, 1809 – 1891) – character. -
Title (black lettering, red elements): ЛЕГЕНДА | О ДОКТОРЕ | ФАУСТЕ | {element} | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛ | В. М. ЖИРМУНСКИЙ | ВТОРОЕ, ИСПРАВЛЕННОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА 1978 || Pagination:[1-5] 6-421 [3]; +3 leaves of plates. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-278. Binding: 22 x 17.5 cm, serial green buckram blind-stamped with a scroll adorned with gold lettering to board and spine. Contents:- Исторические и легендарные свидетельства о докторе Фаусте / Пер. С. А. Акулянц.
- Народная книга: История о докторе Иоганне Фаусте, знаменитом чародее и чернокнижнике / Пер. Р. В. Френкель.
- Свидетельства о постановке народной драмы и кукольной комедии / Пер. С. А. Акулянц
- Кукольные комедии / Пер. H. A. Сигал: (1) Доктор Иоганн Фауст; (2) Доктор Фауст, или Великий Негромант; (3) Иоганнес Фауст.
- Кристофер Марло. Трагическая история доктора Фауста / Пер. H. H. Амосовой.
- «Фауст» Лессинга / Пер. В. Е. Гаккель-Аренс.
- Комментарии: В. М. Жирмунский. История легенды о Фаусте.
- Примечания / Сост. В. М. Жирмунский; к «Фаусту» Марло — H. H. Амосова.
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Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 18 entries, with colour illustrations, some folding. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on September 15-18, 1998 in NY; pagination: [2] 3-43 [1], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard -
Photographic portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky, head and shoulders, three-quarters to the right, wearing glasses. Pencil-signed on the mat: 1/45 • Mikhail Lemkhin; same inscription on the back of the print, and ink stamp ©Mikhail Lemkhin. Sitter: Joseph Brodsky [Иосиф Александрович Бродский ] (Russian-American-Jewish, 1940 – 1996). Size: mat: 40.5 x 51 cm; window: 24.5 x 35 cm; print: 27.7 x 35.4 cm. -
Front wrapper (in black and red in a red frame): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР | ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА — {СК} (white stylized letters on red background) | СВОДНЫЙ | КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ | НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ | ПЕЧАТИ XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | МОСКВА 1981 || Title page: ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА БИБЛИОТЕКА СССР| ИМЕНИ В. И. ЛЕНИНА | СВОДНЫЙ КАТАЛОГ | РУССКОЙ НЕЛЕГАЛЬНОЙ | И ЗАПРЕЩЕННОЙ ПЕЧАТИ | XIX ВЕКА | КНИГИ И ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКИЕ ИЗДАНИЯ | 2-Е ДОПОЛНЕННОЕ И ПЕРЕРАБОТАННОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ | Часть I. Книги. А–М (№ 1–1158). | МОСКВА 1981 || Publisher’s wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, lettering to front and spine; pagination: [2] – t.p. / imprint, 3-198 [2]; collation: 8vo; [1]-138. Print run 1,250 copies. Науч. ред.: Итенберг, Борис Самуилович (Russian, 1921 – 2016). «Сводный каталог русской нелегальной и запрещенной печати XIX века. Книги и периодические издания» состоит из трех частей: Часть 1. Книги А–М. (№ 1–1158) Часть 2. Книги Н–Я. Периодические издания (№ 1159–2576) [LIB-2660.2021] Часть 3-я. Приложения. Вспомогательные указатели. Список источников. [LIB-2661.2021] -
Description: Hardcover, 22.2 x 17.2 cm, in green buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-638 [2], 640 pages total. Incl.: Ф.-Р. де Шатобриан. Из «гения христианства». Title-page: ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ | МАНИФЕСТЫ | ЗАПАДНОЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ | РОМАНТИКОВ | Собрание текстов, | вступительная статья и общая редакция | проф. А. С. Дмитриева | Издательство Московского университета | 1980 || Contributors: Дмитриев, Александр Сергеевич (Russian, 1919 – 2001) François-René de Chateaubriand (French, 1768 – 1848) -
Softcover, 22.5 x 16.5 cm, pictorial paperback, pp.: [i-xi] xii-xix [xx blank] [2] [1] 2-179 [180] [6 advert.], total 206 pp plus cardstock Portable Stanford form. Nicholas Russel [Николай Константинович Судзиловский] (Russian-American, 1850 – 1930) -
Hardcover volume 20.7 x 13.4 cm, bound in black buckram with blind and grey lettering to front and grey lettering to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, yellow pictorial endpapers, pp.: [2] 3-287 [1], collated in 16mo, 1-916, 144 leaves, 288 pages. Title-page: ПИСЬМА АЗЕФА | — | 1893 – 1917 | — | [blank] | {publisher’s device} | МОСКВА | «ТЕРРА» — «TERRA» | 1994 || Print run: 10,000 copies. Азеф, Евгений Филиппович [Евно Фишелевич], [Azef, Yevno] (Jewish-Russian-German, 1869 – 1918) Павлов, Дмитрий Борисович (Russian, b. 1954) Перегудова, Зинаида Ивановна (Russian, b. 1934)ISBN: 5-85255-395-6. Azef Letters (Rus).
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Title page: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE | OF THE | MILTON COLLECTION | IN THE ALEXANDER | TURNBULL LIBRARY, | WELLINGTON, | NEW ZEALAND |Describing works printed before 1801 | held in the Library at December 1975 | COMPILED BY | K. A. COLERIDGE | Published for the Alexander Turnbull Library, | National Library of New Zealand, | by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1980. Pagination: [i-v] vi-xxv [xxvi blank], [1] 2-536, plus 27 leaves with 60 plates. Printer: Printed in Great Britain at the Pitman Press, Bath. Size: 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Binding: Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lettered maroon dust-jacket, unclipped (£35.00 net in UK). Contributor: Kathleen A. Coleridge (New Zealand, b. 1944). -
Mikhail Uspensky, Elena Varshavskaya. The netsuke and Japanese woodblock prints from the collection of S. P. Varshavsky. Printed by demand of The Hermitage Museum. Title-page (vertical bottom to top): ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ОРДЕНА ЛЕНИНА | ЭРМИТАЖ | НЭЦКЭ | И ЯПОНСКАЯ | ГРАВЮРА | из собрания | С. П. Варшавского | КАТАЛОГ ВЫСТАВКИ | — | ЛЕНИНГРАД | “ИСКУССТВО” | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ | 1983 | {vignette} || Description: Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 21.5 x 14.5 cm, pp.: [1-8] 9-42 [43-51] (b/w plates unpag.) [52] 53-76 [77-95] (b/w plates unpag.) [96] (colophon); total 96 pages plus four leaves of colour plates. Catalogue:137 entries of netsuke, 69 entries of Japanese woodblock prints. Print run: 3,000 copies. Contributors: Mikhail Uspensky [Михаил Владимирович Успенский] (Russian, 1953 – 1997) Elena Varshavsky [Елена Юрьевна Варшавская (Jewish-American, b. 1952) Vladislav Sisauri [Владислав Ираклиевич Сисаури] (Russian, b. 1944) Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). -
Small volume, 14 x 10 cm, in tan cloth with vignette and lettering to front, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-123 [5], total 64 leaves, 10 full-page and 7 double-page two-colour woodcuts within pagination, and numerous b/w in-text vignettes by Serhiy Adamovych; translated from the Ukrainian into English by Oles Kovalenko. Print run: 11,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Олесь Iванович Коваленко (Ukrainian, 1945 – 2012) – translator from the Ukrainian into English. Сергiй Тадейович Адамович [Serhiy Adamovych] (Ukrainian, 1922 – 1998) – artist. -
NEWHardcover, 20.7 x 13.5 cm; original blue buckram, embossed gilt lettering on front cover and spine, geometrical elements to the front, pictorial endpapers. Collated 16mo: 1816, i.e. 288 leaves plus double-frontispiece and 8 leaves of plates at p. 224, pp.: [2] 3-542 [2]. Title-page: ВЛАДИМИР | НАБОКОВ | КРУГ | {publisher’s device} | Ленинград | «Художественная литература» | Ленинградское | отделение | 1990 || ISBN 5-280-00953-9 Contributors: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899 – 1977) – author Андрей Георгиевич Битов [Andrei Bitov] (Russian, 1937 –2018) – preface Никита Ильич Толстой [Nikita Tolstoï] (Russian, 1923 – 1996) – compilation, comments Геннадиев, Андрей Борисович (Russian, b. 1947) – artist -
Description: Oblong volume, 19.3 x 24.2 cm, hardcover in velvet with pasted image, in a pictorial slipcase; printed on glossy paper, unpaginated. Title-page (in frame): ERATO | GRAPHIKEN VON MIHÁLY ZICHY || Collation: (2) h.t., t.p., (30) leaves of plates (4) text by Éva Bros, bibliography, colophon; total 36 leaves. The plates are photomechanical offset copies made from the photogravures of 1911 Leipzig private press edition [SVE-0501.2021], which photogravures made from the original watercolours and crayon drawings produced by Zichy in 1874-1879; the original album of 51 compositions was sold at Christie’s sale of Gérard Nordmann collection on December 14-15, 2006 in Paris. See a copy of the Leipzig album № 285 in this collection [SVE-0501.2021]. -
Photographic portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky, head, hand, and shoulder, three-quarters to the right, wearing glasses and with a cigarette. Pencil-signed on the mat: 4/45 • Mikhail Lemkhin; same inscription on the back of the print, and ink stamp ©Mikhail Lemkhin. Sitter: Joseph Brodsky [Иосиф Александрович Бродский ] (Russian-American-Jewish, 1940 – 1996). Size: mat: 40.5 x 51 cm; window: 26.5 x 30 cm; print: 28 x 35.4 cm. -
Binding: 25. 3 x 19.5 cm, light blue cloth, black labels with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Title: Dictionary of | Victorian | Wood Engravers | {fleuron} | Rodney K Engen | Chadwyck-Healey || Pagination: frontispiece; [i-iv] v-xxi [2] 3-297 [298]. Author’s signature dated 1987 to recto frontis. -
Description: Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.3 cm, green buckram with gilt lettering to spine, gilt serial design and lettering to front cover, pp.: [1-6] 7-479 [480]. Incl. Ф.-Р. де Шатобриан. «Гений христианства», пер. О. Э. Гринберг. Title-page : | — | ЭСТЕТИКА РАННЕГО ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО РОМАНТИЗМА |— | {publisher’s device} | МОСКВА | ИСКУССТВО | 1982 | 3 || François-René de Chateaubriand (French, 1768 – 1848) – author Ольга Эммануиловна Гринберг (Russian, 1950 – 2008) – translator Вера Аркадьевна Мильчина [Vera Miltchina] (Russian, b. 1953) – foreword, translator -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 15 cm, bound in blind-stamped blue buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [1-4] h.t., t.p., 5-507 [508] [4] contents/colophon, advert.; collated in 16mo (1-1616), 256 leaves, 512 pages. Title-page: Б. И. НИКОЛАЕВСКИЙ | ТАЙНЫЕ | СТРАНИЦЫ | ИСТОРИИ | ЛЕНИН И ДЕНЬГИ / БОЛЬШЕВИСТСКОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ | БИОГРАФИЯ МАЛЕНКОВА | ГЕРМАНИЯ / И РУССКИЕ РЕВОЛЮЦИОНЕРЫ / В ГОДЫ ПЕРВОЙ МИРОВОЙ / ВОЙНЫ | ПРОТОКОЛЫ ПОЛИТБЮРО / И ДОКУМЕНТЫ ОСОБОГО ОТДЕЛА / НКИД СССР, 1934 | Москва | Издательство | гуманитарной литературы | 1995 || Print run: 2,000 copies. Contributors: Борис Иванович Николаевский [Boris Nicolaevsky] (Russian-American, 1887 – 1966) – author. Юрий Георгиевич Фельштинский [Yuri Felshtinsky] (Jewish-Russian-American, b. 1956) – editor/compiler. ISBN: 5-87121-007-4. History's secret pages. -
Hardcover volume, 24.5 x 17.5 cm, bound in black buckram with blind barbed wire design and silver lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [2] 3-799 [800]. Одеський мартиролог: Данi про репресованих Одеси i Одеськоï областi за роки радянськоï влады (Серiя «Реабiлiтованi iсторiэю») (Том 2) / Уклад.: Л. В. Ковальчук, Г. О. Разумов— Одеса : ОКФА, 1999. Title-page: Научно-документальная серия книг | «РЕАБИЛИТИРОВАННЫЕ ИСТОРИЕЙ» | ОДЕССКИЙ | МАРТИРОЛОГ | ТОМ 2 | Одесса | ОКФА | 1999 || ISBN: 966-571-035-4 Print run: 1,000 copies. Ковальчук, Лидия Всеволодовна Разумов, Георгий АлександровичPages 515-531. 13. Постановление помощника уполномоченного Одесского окружного отдела ГПУ Найдмана по делу сотрудников Индо-Европейского телеграфа, репрессированных в 1927 г. по обвинению в шпионаже. […] ВАРШАВСКОЙ Эльзы Филипповны, 45 лет, уроженицы г. Одессы, по национальности – еврейка, происходит из купеческой семьи, подданства УССР, образования среднего, замужняя, не судившаяся, беспартийная, в союзе не состоит, без профессии, проживавшая по ул. Хмельницкого в д. № 18, в совершении преступлений, предусмотренных ст. 54-6 УК УССР, нашел: […] Note: ст. 54-6 — шпигунство: позбавлення волі на строк не менш як 3 роки, з конфіскацією всього або частини майна, аж до вищого заходу соціального захисту — розстрілу.
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Title page: PRINTING AND | THE MIND OF MAN | SECOND EDITION | REVISED AND ENLARGED | WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION | BY PERCY H. MUIR, | ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES | BY PETER AMELUNG, | AND REVISED INDEX | KARL PRESSLER • MÜNCHEN • 1983 || Printer: Richard Mayr (Würzburg) Edition: 2nd edition, 1st published in 1967 by Cassell and Company Ltd. Pagination: [i-viii] ix-xxv [xxvi blank], v-xxxiv, [2] 1-280 [2], total number of pages 338. Collation: π19 b1-3, [π7], 1-168 174 188, total number of leaves 169. Binding: 32 x 22.5 cm, red cloth, lettered paper labels to front cover and spine, dust jacket on both sides with maroon lettering over yellow background: PRINTING | AND | THE MIND | OF MAN | EDITED BY JOHN CARTER & PERCY H. MUIR | Second edition | revised & enlarged | KARL PRESSLER • MÜNCHEN || This book is usually referenced as "PPM". -
Mikhail Uspensky. Netsuke. Title-page: М. В. Успенский | — | НЭЦКЭ | {blank} | «Искусство» | Ленинградской отделение | 1986 || Hardcover, pictorial glossy paper, 17.2 x 12.6 cm; pp.: [2] 3-231 [232], 160 in-text b/w illustrations plus 16 leaves with 36 colour plates (pp. 233-263 unpag.) [264 colophon]; total 264 pages. Print run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Uspensky, Mikhail [Успенский, Михаил Владимирович] (Russian, 1953 – 1997) Sisauri, Vladislav [Сисаури, Владислав Ираклиевич] (Russian, b. 1944) -
Small volume, 17.2 x 13.2 cm, brown buckram with vignette and lettering to front and spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-315 [5], illustrations: portrait, frontispiece, and two vignettes by I. Gavriliuk; text on Ukrainian and Russian. A reprint of the 1874 edition. Contents: Дев’ять братiв i десята сестриця Галя, Невiльничка, Ведмiдь, Кармелюк, Совершенная курица, Королевна Я, Затейник, Похождения домашнего учителя, Воришка, Чортова пригода. Title-page: Марко Вовчок | Сказки и быль | {vignette} | КИЕВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | «ДНIПРО» | 1988 || Print run: 250,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Іван Михайлович Гаврилюк (Иван Михайлович Гаврилюк) (Ukrainian, 1939 – 2008) – artist. -
![E. de Crauzat. L'Œuvre gravé et lithographié de Steinlen: Catalogue descriptif et analytique suivi d'un essai de bibliographie et d'Iconographie de son œuvre illustré / Préface de Roger Marx. — San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1983. — Fac similé de l'édition originale de 1913. — pp.: [i-ix] x-xv [1-3] 4-228 [229-234]. — [Ernest de Crauzat].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2289.2019-d-500x500.jpeg)
Title: DE CRAUZAT | L'ŒUVRE | Gravé et Lithographié | DE | STEINLEN | Catalogue descriptif et analytique | suivi d'un essai de bibliographie et d'Iconographie | de son œuvre illustré. | PRÉFACE | DE ROGER MARX | San Francisco | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts | 1983. Edition: Fac-similé de l'édition originale de 1913. Pagination: [i-ix] x-xv [1-3] 4-228 [229-234]. Size: 32 x 24 cm. -
Glossy softcover, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, 30 x 23 cm, pp.: [i-v] vi-xi [xii blank], [2] 3-199 [200 blank], ils.; total 106 leaves. Title-page: Vertical from bottom to top along the outer margin in grey: KUNISADA'S WORLD; horizontally: KUNISADA'S WORLD | SEBASTIAN IZZARD | with essays by | J. THOMAS RIMER | JOHN T. CARPENTER | JAPAN SOCIETY, INC., in collaboration with the | UKIYO-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA || Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, September 30 - November 14, 1993. Contents: (1) Kunisada: in and out of his times; Kabuki at the time of Kunisada / J. Thomas Rimer. (2) Popular fiction in the age of Kunisada; Kunisada and the art of comic poetry / John T. Carpenter. (3) Kunisada the artist / Sebastian Izzard. Contributors: Sebastian Izzard J. Thomas Rimer (American, b. 1933) John T. Carpenter (American) Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865) Select illustrations (references in this collection):
SVJP-0179-3.2014: The Hour of the Tiger, Seventh Hour of Night from the series Twelve Hours of a Modern Clock.
SVJP-0222.2016: A view of the dressing room of a Theater in Dōtonbori, Ōsaka.
SVJP-0105.2014: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as the ghost of Seigen.
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Photographic portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky, head and shoulder, turned slightly right, looking to the right. Pencil-signed on the mat: 1/45 • Mikhail Lemkhin; same inscription on the back of the print, and ink stamp ©Mikhail Lemkhin. Sitter: Joseph Brodsky [Иосиф Александрович Бродский ] (Russian-American-Jewish, 1940 – 1996). Size: mat: 51 x 40.5 cm; window: 34.5 x 27 cm; print: 35 x 28 cm. -
Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, 25.5 x 19.5 cm, pp.: [1-4] 5-452, +12 colour plates; 576 b/w plates within the pagination. -
Title-page: KUNIYOSHI | The Warrior-Prints | B. W. Robinson | [space] | PHAIDON | OXFORD || Description: hardcover, 31.7 x 25 cm, bound in olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, white endpapers, pictorial olive dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-208 incl. frontispiece, 64 plates, and 30 figs. in the text (total 104 leaves, 205 illustrations, including 32 in colour); catalogue with the list of illustrations, and index of characters portrayed. Inset: A.L.s. on Phaidon letterhead by Sue Moulton; ISBN 0714822272. Edition: 1st edition,1st printing (a review copy). Contributor: Robinson, Basil William (British, 1912 – 2005). -
Paperback, 27.5 x 19 cm, pictorial wrappers, lettering to front wrapper and spine, pp.: [i-iv] v-viii, 1-104, ils.: 50 figures; catalogue, notes, and bibliography. Title-page: UNDERCURRENTS | IN THE FLOATING WORLD: | CENSORSHIP | AND JAPANESE PRINTS | Sarah E. Thompson | H. D. Harootunian | {kiwame seal} | THE ASIA SOCIETY GALLERIES | NEW YORK || Exhibition in NY: October 9, 1991 – January 5, 1992. Authors: Sarah E. Thompson (American, b. 1951) Harry D. Harootunian (Armenian-American, b. 1929)
