Search Results: Rare books from Biblionne

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 harder for the advancing German forces to cross. It was rebuilt between 1944-1950. Karachay-Balkar is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars who live in the North Caucasus. After the October Revolution, as part of a state campaign of Latinisation of Karachay and Balkar, educators developed a new alphabet based on Latin letters. It was used from 1929 till 1939. The new alphabet based on Cyrillic letters was officially adopted later. During the war, both peoples were accused of aiding the German invaders and were deported from their permanent residence in one day. A few books published before the war in the Latin… Read More

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 is no name of translators in the book. They appeared in the next edition in 1982 only: M. Bogoslovskaia-Bobrova(The Sisters and The Little Cloud), I. Romanovich (An Encounter and Grace), E. Kalashnikova (Araby, Counterparts and Clay), N. Volzhina (Eveline and The Boarding House), V. Toper (After the Race and Two Gallants), N. Daruzes (A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room and A Mother), O. Kholmskaia (The Dead). Most of them were contributors to the translation of Ulysses to Russian in 1935-1936.This book was the last attempt to introduce Joyce's fiction to Russian readers for years. The next… Read More

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 G. Nazarov 13/IX-16 Petrograd'. This inscript is the only one possibility to identify the translator who wasn't metioned in the edition.It was the only translation prepared by G. Nazarov. During The Great War he served in a fortress artillery regiment and was awarded the Order of Saint Anna (2nd class) in 1916. Wells published a number of articles in London newspapers immediately after the outbreak of the War, which destroyed the old life and open way for new advances. The book edition was issued in the same year. Wells was very popular in Russia, but as a fiction writer. However, this collection of articles about the… Read More

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).

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 adaptation. Emil Jannings, first Oscar recipient for Best actor, played the role of Othello here. The poster was published in Kozmodemyansk (the Mari El Republic in Volga region) and the film was called 'an exclusively feature film' and 'an action film', which 'took place in Venice and Cyprus Island'.

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 Spin magazine published an article Top Five Unintelligible Sentences from Books Written by Rock Stars. Dylan's line from Tarantula came in first place. Russian translation was prepared by Maksim Nemtsov (b. 1963), an editor of samizdat rock magazine DVR. He worked as a consular assistant at the US Consulate General in Vladivostok. Nemtsov also translated Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger's books. Front cover illustrated with photography by Mikhail Pavin (b. 1958). He taught at the Jilin College of the Arts in China. He is considered as the creator of the longest photo in Russia.

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 in Moscow. The first issue includes a comics Strange Illness about a pelican who swallowed balloons and the well-known Russian folk tale Teremok (# 1) in an old version where animals lived in a horse skull. The magazine dates for the pre-revolutionary orthography.