Russ Books

Thu Mar 14 00:47:13 UTC 2002

While rearranging my books I found that I have numerous duplicate copies--a
result of feverish buying and of years and years of shelving "wherever there
is space." If anybody is interested in buying any of these books, please
contact OFF-LIST
csperrle at cs.com

The prices quoted do not include shipping costs.
(There is no order or logic to the list, so don't look for any)

1. Bychkov, V. V. Russkaia srednevekovaia estetika XI-XVII veka. Moscow:
Mysl', 1992; heavily illustrated in color, 638 pp. (hardcover, dust jacket,
new; $60)

2. Lubensky, Sophia. Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms. New York: Random
House, 1995. (hardcover, dust jacket, mint condition; $50)

3. Filosofiia russkogo religioznogo iskusstva XVI-XX vv. Antologiia.
(Sokrovishchnitsa russkoi religioznoi-filosofskoi mysli. Vypusk 1). Moscow:
Progress, 1993, 400 pp., color plates (hardcover, dust jacket, new; $30)

4. Soloviev, Vladimir. Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh. Vtoroe izdanie.
(Filosofskoe nasledie tom 110-111). Moscow: Mysl', 1990. (2 vols., hardcover,
new; $40)

5. Kostsova, A. Siuzhety drevnerusskikh ikon. 2nd St. Petersburg:
Iskusstvo-SPB, 1993; 223 pp. (miniature hardcover book, dust jacket, color
plates on almost every other page, new, $12)

6. Berdyaev, Nikolas. The Beginning and the End. Harper Torchbook, 1957.
(sewn paperback, name on first page, no marks in text, $6.50)

7. Fedotov, G. P. The Russian Religious Mind. Kievan Christianity: the 10th
to the 13th centuries. Harper Torchbook, 1960. (sewn paperback, several
chapters have underlinings in pen, cover worn; $6.50)

8. Shestov, Lev. Potestas Clavium. Gateway Edition, 1970. (paperback, cover
some soiling, ceases,  text clean/tight, no marks; $8.50)

9. Brodskii ob Akhmatovoi. Dialogi s Volkovym. Moscow: Nezavisimaia gazeta,
1992, 49 pp. (paperbound brochure, new; $3.50)

10. Stepanov, N. P. Narodnye prazdniki na sviatoi Rusi. Moscow, 1990, 94 pp.
(paperbound brochure, new; $3.50)

11. Izbornik povesti drevnei Rusi. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura,
1986. (paperback, very good condition, but paper slightly yellow; $3.50)

12. Karsavin, Lev. Religiozno-filosofskie sochineniia. Tom 1. Moscow:
Renessans, 1992; 325 pp. (new hardcover; $10)

13. Slovar' istoricheskii o russkikh sviatykh, proslavlennykh v rossiiskoi
tserkvi, i o nekotorykh podvizhnikakh blagochestiia, mestno chtimykh. Moscow:
Kniga, 1990; 294 pp. (reprint of 1862 ed.) (new hardcover; $12)

14. Leskov, N. S. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Tom 3. Sochineniia 1862-1864.
Moscow: Terra, 1996; 800 pp. (early articles and travelogues, many published
for the 1st time) (new hardcover, dust jacket, $25)

15. Pushkin, Alexander. The Collected Stories. Tr. Paul Debreczeny. Intro
John Bayley. Verse passages tr. walter Arndt. Everyman's Library. Knopf, 1999
(hardcover, mint condition; $13.50)

16. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. V kruge pervym. (Complete text in Russian)
Harper Colophon Books, 1968. (sewn paperback, cover slight wear, text clean,
no marks; $6.50)

17. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. Stories and Prose Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus
1971 (paperback, pages very yellow, otherwise clean, no marks or creases
$3.50)

18. Petrushevskaia, Liudmila. The Time: Night (1st  US hardcover ed, with
dustjacket, new; $13.50)

19. Nostalgia and Beyond: Eleven Latvian Women Writers. University Press of
America, 1998 (paperback, new; $27)

20. Voinovich, Vladimir. Moskva 2042. Ann Arbor: Ardis (Russ text of novel)
(paperback, new; $13.50)

21. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita: A Screenplay. NY: Viking, 1997 (paperback,
new; $8.00)

22. Nabokov, Vladimir. Selected Letters 1940-1977 (hardcover, 1st  edition,
book and dust jacket mint condition; $25)

23. Annenkov, P.V. The Extraordinary Decade. Literary Memoirs. Ann Arbor:
Univ of Michigan Press, 1968 (hardcover very clean, no marks, like new,
jacket shelf wear and tear top spine; $6.50)

24. The Mind of Russia: Historical and political thought of Russia's great
age. Ed. Hans Kohn. Harper Torchbook, 1962 (paperback, cover slight wear,
some soiling, name in ink on first page, otherwise clean, no marks; $7.50 )

25. The Prose of Osip Mandelstam: The Noise of Time; Theodosia; The Egyptian
Stamp. Tr. with critical essay by Clarence Brown. 2nd printing with
corrections. Princeton University Press, 1967 (hardcover, no dj, has
ex-libris, library stamp on edges, lib pocket glued in on back cover,
otherwise like new; $10)

26. Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Mozart and Salieri. Tr. Robert A. McLean. Ann
Arbor: Ardis, 1973 (new hardcover, dust jacket; $7.50)

27. Bruford, W. H.. Anton Chekhov. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957
(hardcover, clean, no marks, dustjacket worn, torn in places; $7.50)

28. Gogol, N. V.. Mertvye dushi. Moscow: Finansi, 1980. (hardcover, slightly
yellow; $3.50)

29. Gogol, N. V. Povesti (Kniga dlia chteniia s kommentariem). Moscow:
Russkii iazyk, 1983 (for language learners, has several Dikanka stories, and
Nevskii prospekt, Nos, Portret, Shinel', Koliaska) (hardcover, cover some
soiling, no marks; $3.50)

30. Akhmatova, Anna. Beg vremeni. Stikhotvoreniia 1909-1965. M-L: Sovetskii
pisatel', 1965; 469 pp. (hardcover, top edge soiled, book very good
condition, dustjacket heavy shelf wear, small tears top and bottom; $7.50)

31. Akhmatova, Anna. Stikhi i proza. Lenizdat, 1977; 616 pp.  (hardcover, no
jacket, some shelf wear, overall good, no marks; $6.50)

32. Akhmatova, Anna. Stikhotvoreniia i poemy (Biblioteka poeta, malaia
seriia). Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1984; 720 pp. (hardcover, no dj,
excellent condition, clean, no marks; $6)

33. Konstantin Vaginov. Kozlinaia pesn'. Roman. New York: Silver Age, 1978
(reprint of 1928 Leningrad: Priboi) (paperback, excellent condition; $6)

34. Nine Modern Soviet Plays. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977, 728 pp.
(hardcover, dustjacket, excellent condition, with photographs of productions;
$9.50)

35. Zograf, N.G. Malyi teatr vtoroi poloviny XIX veka. Moscow: Akademiia
Nauk, 1960; 648 pp. Many b&w photographs (hardcover with dustjacket, owner's
stamp on front end leaf, otherwise very good $20)

36. Barratt, G.R.V. Voices in Exile: The Decembrist Memoirs. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1974 (hardcover, no dj, ex-library, several
blackened-out stamps on edges and on first few pages, otherwise excellent;
$17)

37. Slonim, Mark. Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present.
Oxford Univ Press, 1953 (hardcover, no dj, good condition, names in ink on
end leaf, otherwise clean, no marks; $10)

38. Braun, Edward. The Theatre of Meyerhold: Revolution on the Modern Stage.
NY: Drama Book Specialist, 1979 (paperback, very good condition, no marks;
$17.50)

39. Okudzhava, Bulat. A Taste of Liberty (Poor Abrosimov). Tr Leo Gruliow.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1986 (paperback, mint condition, $15)

40. Soviet Semiotics. An Anthology. Ed., tr with intro D. Lucid. John Hopkins
Univ Press, 1977 (hardcover, excellent cond, dust jacket slight shelf wear
$13.50)

41. Sakharov, Andrei. Moscow and Beyond 1986-1989. NY: Viking 1992
(paperback, new; $6)

42. Garton Ash, Timothy. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed
in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague. NY: Viking 1993 (paperback, new; 7.50)

43. Spencer, Charles. Erte. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1981 (paperback, 32 color
and 150 b&w illustr., mint condition; $20

44. The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire 1918-1963. Ed. and tr. Mirra
Ginsburg  NY: Grove Press, 1965 (paperback, name in ink on first page,
otherwise very good, no marks or creases $6)

45. Zelinsky, Kornely. Soviet Literature: Problems and People. Moscow:
Progress Publishers, 1970 (hardcover with dustjacket, excellent cond., never
touched-at least by me; $3)

46. Jelavich, Barbara. A Century of Russian Foreign Policy 1814-1914. The
Lippincott History Series, 1964 (paperback, cover slight wear, some soiling,
ow very good; $4)

47. Litvinov, Pavel. The Demonstration in Pushkin Square: The Trial Records
with Commentary and an Open Letter. (transcript of trials resulting from
arrests during a demonstration for freedom of expression in 1967) (hardcover,
book very good, no marks, dj torn; $8.50)

48. The Golden Ring. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988 (hardcover, new,
lots of color photographs; $10)

49. The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert. Tr. Ewald Osers. Tr/ed George
Gibian. Andre Deutsch, 1986 (hardcover, 1st Bristish edition, book and
dustjacket mint condition; $15)

TRANSLATIONS INTO RUSSIAN:

50. Gete, I. V. Faust. Tr. B. Pasternak. Moscow: Mosk. rabochii, 1982
(hardcover, pages yellow, no marks; $7.50)

51. Kortasar, Khulio. Redkie zaniatiia i drugie rasskazy. St. Petersburg:
Azbuka, 1999. (paperback, no marks; $2)

52. Sartr, Zhan Pol', Toshnota. Roman. St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 1999.
(paperback, very good condition, no marks; $2.50)

53. Kavabata, Iasunari. Izbrannye proizvedeniia. Moscow: Panorama, 1993
(hardcover, very good condition, no marks; $7.50)

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