Autographs and rare books of Russian writers and poets. Auction magazine "About Books"
 

May 21 log "About Books" is holding its next auction, "antiquarian books, manuscripts, autographs and historical papers."

At this time in the compilation of the auction is represented by some 500 book lots, including about 200 books with the signatures of Russian and foreign writers from private collections of famous Soviet bookseller and collector Emanuel Filippovich Tsipelzona, writer Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, literary Lazarus Ilyich Lazarev, violinist Galina Barinova and many others.

Among the books XVI-XVIII centuries are rare books, Western writers (some of which are absent in the main stacks of the world, such as the British Museum and the Paris National Library), documents and books associated with the names of kings Peter and Ivan, Paul I, Catherine II, Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, and others.

Among the most notable debut lots of XIX century works of famous Russian writers and poets D. Davidov, A. Bestuzhev-Marly, Aksakov, Kozlova, N. Yazykov, Khomiakov, Ershov, A. Maikov, Dostoevsky , J. Polonsky, P. Vyazemsky, Tolstoy, I. Nikitina, A. Ostrovsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, L. Mei, N. Ogarev, Tolstoy, D. Merezhkovsky and others. Most of these books is a rare and almost never appear in the open market. Among the autographs of the XIX century is allocated a letter of the famous writer of Pushkin's time Bulgarin F. P. Keppen associated with acute controversy surrounding the famous work Bulgarin "Russia in a historical, statistical, geographical and literary relations", as well as an autograph painting a friend of Alexander Pushkin A. Delvig from the collection of EF Tsipelzona.

Among the autographs of the XX century it should be noted with lots inskriptami Voloshin, Gumilev, Zoshchenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Soloviev, A. Kuprin, S. Klychkov, Lunacharsky, Dovzhenko, Eisenstein, V. Pudovkin, D. Poor, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Kazimir Malevich, K. Juon, M. Isakovsky, VA Corinth, Lili Brik, A. Novikov, Surf, K. Chukovsky Prishvin, A. Twardowski, A. Fadeev, A. Tolstoy, Shklovsky, I. Rozanova, VN Ilyin, N. Taffy, S. Gorodetsky, M. Vlad, N. Aseeva Ehrenburg, S. Yutkevich, G. Bergholz, Olesha, Kaverina, A. Voznesensky, C. Simon, R. Rozhdestvensky Bulat Okudzhava, M. Kozakov, and others.

Auction "antiquarian books, manuscripts, autographs and historical papers" will be held May 21, 2011 at 15 o'clock in the Nicholas Hall of the Hotel "National" at ul. Moss, 15 /1. Contact: Sergei Burmistrov, editor of "About Books", tel. 969-7745. A detailed directory on the web - www.aboutbooks.ru /auction .