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Translation by N. Kamionskaya. Preface by S. Dinamov. One of 7 000 copies published. First and only Russian edition. One of the first O'Flaherty's books in Russian (three other novels were translated and issued in 1927). Liam O'Flaherty (1896–1984), a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance and a founding member of the Irish Communist Party, gained immense popularity in the Soviet Union during… Read more about this item

One of 3 000 copies published. First Yeats's book in Russian. The Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was first mentioned in Russia in an article about William Blake in Severny Vestnik (#9, 1896). In 1915, the literary critic and translator Zinaida Vengerova translated Yeats's play Cathleen ni Houlihan, but it remained unpublished. She also reviewed his Ideas of Good and Evil… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Moskva-Leningrad, Zemlya i Fabrika, 1925. Limited to 5 000 copies. First Russian translation from Ulysses. The one and only edition of the translation. Rare. In good condition, rebacked, new spin, cracks on the front cover, slightly water-stained to the covers and page margins, stains. The anthology includes five fragments from Joyce's Ulysses (p. 65-94; episodes 1, 7, 12, 17 and 18). Extracts were… Read more about this item

One of 3 000 copies (each issue) printed. First and only Russian translation of Liam O'Flaherty's The Assassin (№ 6 – 5-54 pp., № 7 – 41-95 pp., № 8 – 47-91 pp.). Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), major figure in the Irish literary renaissance, a young founder of the Irish Communist Party. He became the most widely translated contemporary Irish writer in the… Read more about this item

Moskva, Akts. Izd. O-vo Ogonek, 1929 Limited to 15 000 copies. Collection of short stories of Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. He actively published in USSR before the beginning of the 1930s. He visited Moscow on April 23, 1930 to collect material for a book on Bolshevism. The book I Went To Russia (London, 1931) has been criticized in USSR and after… Read more about this item

Translation by N. Vol'pin, G. Prokunina. Preface by A. Starcev. Illustrations by I. Brullin. Moskva, Inostrannaia literatura, 1947. The first and only edition in Russian of Jim Phelan's novel And Blackthorns (1944). The second and last Phelan's book in Russian in Soviet era times. Translator Nadezhda Volpin has published poems in Imaginism style. She gave birth to Sergei Yesenin's son, Alexander Esenin-Volpin. She… Read more about this item