1329 - 1378 FOREIGN LITERATURE
- Frontwr. w. restored spot.
= Kilgour 1041. Published in Leningrad in the same year (in the USSR, Savinkov was published only during Lenin's NEP, 1924-1925).
Idem. Kon' blednyj (The pale horse). Nice, M.A. Tumanov, 1913, 4th(?) ed., 144p., orig. wr.
- Old fold in frontwr. = Kilgour 1038.
Ivanov, V.N. Bezhenskaya Poema (Fugitive Poem). Harbin, Bambukovaya Roscha, 1926, 1st ed., 85,(2)p., orig. wr.
- Backstrip sl. worn/ creased; top of spine strengthened w. paper. = Not in Kilgour. Very rare.
- Bookplate on htitle. Spine-ends and corners trifle rubbed; frontwr. sl. yellowed along margins. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED on htitle to "Herrn Professor Pol de Mont", dated "Magdeburg im Mai 1897".
- Owner's entry on first blank. Wr. sl. browned along edges.
Idem. Ved'ma (The witch). Ibid., Petropolis, 1936, 1st ed., 219,(3)p., orig. wr.
- Waterstain in inner margin at the beginning and end; first and final blank partly pasted to front-/ backwr. and strengthened w. piece of paper; owner's entry on htitle. Backstrip waterst.; stamp on backwr.
AND 1 other: YU. OLESHA, Zavist' (Berlin, 1931, 1st ed., orig. wr.).
- Dustwr. sl. worn and dustwr. and wrap-around slip partly discol.
Idem. Special Branch (a dialogue). Ibid., idem, 1972, 1st ed., 94,(2)p., orig. wr. (backstrip sl. discol.)
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle: "for Kees Broos with best wishes from Stefan Themerson. London, August 1973".
AND 5 others by the same, mainly first editions, all but one published by the same: Cardinal Pölätüo, a novel (1961, "Gaberbocchus Paper Back", orig. wr.), Wooff Wooff or Who Killed Richard Wagener? (1967, reprint, "Gaberbocchus Paper Back", orig. wr.), Factor T followed by Beliefs, tethered and untethered and The pheromones of fear (1972, ills., orig. wr.), General Piecs or the Case of the Forgotten Mission (1976, orig. wr. w. orig. wrap-around slip), Hobson's Island (London, Faber and Faber in conjunction w. Gaberbocchus/ De Harmonie, 1988, orig. boards w. dustwr. Yellowed).
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle: "Kees Broos from Stefan Themerson with best wishes 26.IX.1975".
Idem. Logic, Labels, and Flesh. Ibid., idem, 1974, 1st ed., 202,(6)p., ills., orig. boards w. (sl. soiled) dustwr. - AND 4 others by the same, all but one first editions, all but one published by the same: Bayamus and the Theatre of Semantic Poetry (1965, new rev. ed., orig. wr.), Factor T followed by Beliefs, tethered and untethered and The pheromones of fear (1972, ills., orig. wr.), General Piecs or the Case of the Forgotten Mission (1976, orig. wr.), The Mystery of the Sardine (London, Faber and Faber in conjunction w. Gaberbocchus/ De Harmonie, 1986, orig. boards w. dustwr.),
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding partly faded.
- All vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; first and final lvs. sl. browned. Spines sunned; bindings sl. stained.
- No.15 and 18 paper rather brittle and sl. browned/ yellowed. No.21 wrapper sl. yellowed along edges and foot of spine strengthened w. sellotape.
= Important and influential magazine, of which 25 issues were published between 1927-1938, featuring almost every avant-garde writer of the period.
- Owner's entry on htitle. Frontwr. sl. dogeared; backwr. discol. along edges.
- Backstrip loosening.
= "Andreas Latzko in aufrichtiger Verehrung. Davos Platz. 14 Dezember 1917 [signed]".