Group of eleven works.
I stalo tak. Iumoristicheskie razskazy [And Became This Way. Humorous Stories]. Petersburg: “Satirikon,” 1912. Fifth printing. 206 pp., 8vo (215 x 155 mm). Original cloth-backed decorated boards designed by “Re-Mi” [Nikolai Remizov]. Condition: boards rubbed and soiled. [Together with 10 other works by Teffi:] Chernyi iris. Razskazy [Black Iris. Stories] . Stockholm: “Severnye Ogni,”1921. 95 pp., 8vo (195 x 135 mm). Rebound in leather-backed marbled boards with the original decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: original wrappers soiled and rebacked. Tikhaya zavod [The Still Factory] . Paris: Russkaya Zemaya, 1921. 287 pp., 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Rebound in cloth-backed boards. Condition: ex-library copy. Vechernii den. Razskazy [Evening Day. Stories]. Prague: Plamya, 1924 149 pp., 8vo (175 x 130 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored. Passiflora. Berlin: “Teatr,” 1923. 54 pp., 8vo (195 x 130 mm). Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by “A. A.” Condition: wrappers soiled. Gorodok. Novyie razskazy [The Little Town. New Stories]. Paris: “N. P. Karbasnikov,” 1927. Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by Fedor Rojankovsky Condition: wrappers soiled and detached from spine, partially split. Vedma [The Witch]. Berlin: Petropolis, [n. d.]. 222 pp., 8vo (195 x 130 mm). Original two-color white wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled. Vse o lubvi [Everything about Love]. Paris: La Presse française et étrangère [1946]. 272 pp., 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Original white wrappers. Condition: front free endpaper chipped. Zigzag . Paris: “Russkiya zapiski,” 1939. 328 pp., 8vo (195 x 145mm). Contemporary cardboard covers. Condition: front cover partially detached. Inscribed in ink by the author to S. Tikston on the front free leaf. Vourdalak . Liége: Maréchal,1946. Translated into French by G. Barbizon and Bl. Escassut. 207 pp., 8vo (197 x 140 mm). Original wrappers glued to paper covering. Condition: residue of glue on original wrappers. Inscribed ink by the author to Serge Breakston on the front free endpaper. Zemnaya raduga [Earthly Rainbow] . New York: Chekhov Publishing House], 1952. Original gray wrappers. Condition: lower backstrip chipped. eleven works by the famous russian woman humorist. “Teffi” was one of Russia’s wittiest writers. By the time of World War I, she was the most famous woman writer in Russia but she was forced to leave after the Revolution. Living and working in Paris, she became the greatest chronicler of Russian emigre life and her satirical stories about fallen grandeur were also published in Soviet Russia. (11).
Group of eleven works.
I stalo tak. Iumoristicheskie razskazy [And Became This Way. Humorous Stories]. Petersburg: “Satirikon,” 1912. Fifth printing. 206 pp., 8vo (215 x 155 mm). Original cloth-backed decorated boards designed by “Re-Mi” [Nikolai Remizov]. Condition: boards rubbed and soiled. [Together with 10 other works by Teffi:] Chernyi iris. Razskazy [Black Iris. Stories] . Stockholm: “Severnye Ogni,”1921. 95 pp., 8vo (195 x 135 mm). Rebound in leather-backed marbled boards with the original decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: original wrappers soiled and rebacked. Tikhaya zavod [The Still Factory] . Paris: Russkaya Zemaya, 1921. 287 pp., 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Rebound in cloth-backed boards. Condition: ex-library copy. Vechernii den. Razskazy [Evening Day. Stories]. Prague: Plamya, 1924 149 pp., 8vo (175 x 130 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored. Passiflora. Berlin: “Teatr,” 1923. 54 pp., 8vo (195 x 130 mm). Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by “A. A.” Condition: wrappers soiled. Gorodok. Novyie razskazy [The Little Town. New Stories]. Paris: “N. P. Karbasnikov,” 1927. Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by Fedor Rojankovsky Condition: wrappers soiled and detached from spine, partially split. Vedma [The Witch]. Berlin: Petropolis, [n. d.]. 222 pp., 8vo (195 x 130 mm). Original two-color white wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled. Vse o lubvi [Everything about Love]. Paris: La Presse française et étrangère [1946]. 272 pp., 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Original white wrappers. Condition: front free endpaper chipped. Zigzag . Paris: “Russkiya zapiski,” 1939. 328 pp., 8vo (195 x 145mm). Contemporary cardboard covers. Condition: front cover partially detached. Inscribed in ink by the author to S. Tikston on the front free leaf. Vourdalak . Liége: Maréchal,1946. Translated into French by G. Barbizon and Bl. Escassut. 207 pp., 8vo (197 x 140 mm). Original wrappers glued to paper covering. Condition: residue of glue on original wrappers. Inscribed ink by the author to Serge Breakston on the front free endpaper. Zemnaya raduga [Earthly Rainbow] . New York: Chekhov Publishing House], 1952. Original gray wrappers. Condition: lower backstrip chipped. eleven works by the famous russian woman humorist. “Teffi” was one of Russia’s wittiest writers. By the time of World War I, she was the most famous woman writer in Russia but she was forced to leave after the Revolution. Living and working in Paris, she became the greatest chronicler of Russian emigre life and her satirical stories about fallen grandeur were also published in Soviet Russia. (11).
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