First edition Antoni Slonimski Alarm and 2 other titles

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Antoni SLONIMSKI,
Alarm.
London, M.I.Kolin, n.d. [1940?]; 32pp.; publisher's stiff paper
wrappers; cont. ownership entry of Robert Auty, dated 1940, on
front flyleaf, traces of a paper-clip having been fixed to the
lower margin of the final page. * First Edition of this sequence
of Polish poems, written in Wrzesien and Lipiec from 1939 to 1940
and published in exile. Loosely inserted are five further poems
by Slonimski cut out of a war-time exile periodical or paper. £
75.00
Antoni Słonimski (15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976) , Polish poet,
journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union
of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known
for his devotion to social justice.
Słonimski was the grandson of Rabbi Hayyim Selig Slonimski, the
founder of the first Hebrew weekly ha-Tsefirah in Poland. His
father, an ophthalmologist, converted to Christianity when he
married a Catholic woman. Słonimski was born in Warsaw and
baptized and raised as a Christian. Słonimski studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1919 he co-founded the
Skamander group of experimental poets with Julian Tuwim and
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In 1924 he travelled to Palestine and
Brasil and in 1932 to the Soviet Union.
Słonimski spent the war years in exile in England and France,
returning to Poland in 1951. He worked as contributor to popular
periodicals: Nowa Kultura (1950–1962), Szpilki (1953–73) and
Przegląd Kulturalny. He was an active anti-Stalinist and
supporter of liberalization. Słonimski died on 4 July 1976 in a
car accident in Warsaw.


Tsvetaeva M.I. Povest' o Sonechke. /Sost., podgot. teksta i
komment. Iu.I. Brodovskoi; st. I.V. 
Kudrovoi; il. E.G. Posetsel'skoi. - Sankt-Peterburg: Vita Nova,
2014. - 560 s. Tir. 1000.  (Rukopisi) V knige publikuiutsia
poslednee prozaicheskoe proizvedene  Mariny Tsvetaevoi - "Povest'
o Sonechke"; 
stikhotvoreniia, posviashchennye Sof'e Gollidei i 
drugim geroiam etoi memuarnoi povesti - poetu Pavlu 
Antokol'skomu, akteru Iuriiu Zavadskomu, rezhisseru 
Evgeniiu Vakhtangovu, i p'esy, glavnye personazhi 
kotorykh byli vo mnogom spisany s Sof'i Gollidei i 
Iuriia Zavadskogo. V izdanie vkliucheny pis'ma Sof'e 
Gollidei ee proslavlennym kollegam - akteram Vasiliiu 
Kachalovu, Azariiu Azarinu, Borisu Zakhve, rezhisseram 
- Konstantinu Stanislavskomu, Evgeniiu Vakhtangovu, 
vospominaniia sovremennikov.  ISBN 978-5-93898-473-8 
A wonderful Vita Nova  £160


B.L. Pasternak: pro et contra: B.L. Pasternak v 
sovetskoi, emigrantskoi, rossiiskoi literaturnoi 
kritike: antologiia T.2 /Sost., komment.: E.V. 
Pasternak, M.A. Rashkovskaia, A.Iu. Sergeeva-Kliatis. - 
Sankt-Peterburg: IBIF, 2013. - 942 s. Tir. 1500
(Russkii put') Tom otrazhaet reaktsiiu, s odnoi 
storony, sovetskikh literaturnykh krugov i partiinoi 
elity, s drugoi - russkoi emigratsii - na vykhod romana 
"Doktor Zhivago". Tom soderzhit fragmenty lichnoi 
perepiski B.L. Pasternaka, vospominaniia, redkie 
arkhivnye materialy. ISBN 978-5-902461-15-9 
 ISBN 978-5-902461-15-9  £ 35.00


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