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196956971New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Fourth Printing. Cloth. A Later Printing in Fine condition in a Near Fine price-clipped dust-jacket ; The first anthology of stories by Isaac Babel and Nathalie Babel who collaborated on the final version. The stories explore the inner life of Russian Jews and their sense of displacement and alienation.; 8vo; 283 pages . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
196927541New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Lavender cloth dust jacket. xv 283pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition tight and quite nice -- and an interesting copy bearing the ownership signature/address on the front flyleaf in blue ballpoint of noted Chicago photographer ARCHIE LIEBERMAN 1926-2008 of "Farm Boy" fame. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
196924010NY: FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in price-clipped otherwise near fine dust jacket. A few short edge nicks in jacket. Light trace of foxing at top edge. . FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. hardcover
9010218Short description: In Russian. Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich. SunsetPiece. Moscow: The Krug Writers Artel 1928: type. Mospolygraph Dawn of Communism. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9010218 unknown
192654867Moscow МоÑква: Kinopechat Кинопечать 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. 80pp. Dark blue and white wrappers with constructivist typography on the front cover housed in modern blue heavy paper portfolio with printed typographic design of original cover pasted to cover flap. Publisher's device on title page. This scarce published screenplay for the film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's novel "Wandering Stars" by the acclaimed Russian-Jewish novelist playwright and journalist Isaac Babel 1894-1940. The film was premiered in Kiev on January 4th 1927 and was directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower 1883-1945. It was produced by VUFKU studios the national film studios of the Ukrainian SSR.<br /> <br /> This book contains the entirety of the film's screenplay accompanied by three striking b/w illustrations by Soviet artist and designer Alexander Bykhovskii 1888-1978 who likely also created the striking cover. The final three pages contain publisher's ads listing other work on the topic of cinema.<br /> <br /> The story tells of the love between Leibel the son of a wealthy shtetl family and Reizel a poor cantor's daughter in Bessarabia. The two run off to join a traveling Yiddish theater group. They are later separated with each becoming successful in their own right only to eventually reunite in America. The work was first serialized and originally appeared in the Warsaw newspapers between 1909 and 1911. It has come to be seen as the third in an unofficial trilogy of novels by the writer centering on musicians or performers preceded by Stempenyu 1888 and The Nightingale 1889.<br /> <br /> In 1925 the Moscow State Jewish Theater suggested that the Goskino the Soviet State Film Studio produce a film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s novel. The order was commissioned to Isaac Babel for translation and adaptation from the book's original Yiddish language to Russian for the screenplay. During this period Babel had been working on other translations of Yiddish literature into Russian including the collected works of Sholem Aleichem and work by David Bergelson. According to Babel's foreword printed here he faced a number of difficulties adapting the novel including the modification of petty bourgeoisie motifs as well as the changes of film directors and their differing requirements. Because of certain elements in the script of which the main committee of the Goskino did not approve the film's production had to ultimately be switched to VUFKU studios in Odessa. In a letter during the period of production Babel apparently wrote: “I will have to be present on the set. if I am not there the director will ruin everything" and later upon hearing of further changes made by Gritscher-Tscherikower wrote that "it is more profitable for me not to participate in this shameful productionâ€. Regardless of Babel's opinion of the final product the film was well received by Soviet audiences at the time.<br /> <br /> Text in Russian. Portfolio with minor wear. Wraps partially restored with minor wear. Previous owner's names and date at top of title page one near gutter. Light water staining along right half of bottom edge of first 30 pages reappearing from pages 40 to end though along lower part of foredge more pronounced on pages 75/76 and light fraying along foredge from pages 67 to 76. Block lightly age-toned. Kinopechat (Кинопечать) unknown
1050-25Berlin Malik-Verlag 1931. 1.-4. Tausend. 8°. 5 Bll. 329 1 S. 1 Bl. OLn.-Bd. mit farb. Rücken u. Deckeltitel. Einband etwas angeschmutzt Spiegel mit Buchhändleretikett "Franz Drechsler Wien". Schnitt etwas stockfleckig. Buchblock am Schluss etwas angebrochen. Leicht gebräunt. Deutsche Erstausgabe von Isaak Babels 1894-1940 Sammlung von Erzählungen. "Einzige autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Dmitrij Umanskij ". Berlin, Malik-Verlag (1931). unknown
19291982New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First English language edition. 213 pp. Smooth deep orange cloth lettered and decorated in black. Some rubbing to edges and corners interior clean. The rare dust jacket is not present. The first appearance in English of Babel's legendary stories based on his experiences with the 1st Cavalry Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. Translated by Nadia Helstein. This translation an identical translation published by Knopf in London in 1929 is attributed to John Harland was later described as "abounding in errors" and "generally an inadequate rendering." It is however the first and one of the only collections of Babel's work to be published in English in his lifetime. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
19296342New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Nadia Helstein. Very Good lacking the jacket. Orange buckram toned and lightly rubbed with a black ink panel on the spine and design and lettering on the front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain toned page former owner's name and contemporary date on the front endpaper clean otherwise. A scarce first edition of Babel's stories about the Polish campaign of Budyenny's army of wild Cossacks. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1929616497London: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1929. First UK edition hard cover no jacket in very good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear including fading and wear to boards spine edges and bumped corners. Blemishes noted tanning present. Pageblock is discoloured and tanned foxing leading into endpapers spots of foxing and rare blemishes noted very occasionally within. However binding remains firm content is clear and text unmarked. CN. First Edition UK. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Alfred A Knopf Inc Hardcover
2002373760London : Picador 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 1072 p. : maps ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Babel I. Isaak 1894-1941. Genre: History. Language: English. London : Picador hardcover
192960252Alfred A. Knopf. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First English Edition. Hardback. First English Edition 1929. Dust jacket is missing; boards are scuffed and marked sunned at outer edges spine sunned corners worn and bumped; binding is tight; pages are age-toned and spotted with previous owner's blue pencil annotations on rear endpaper upper edges dusty. Newspaper article on Antonina Pirozhkova Isaac Babel's muse laid in. ; 5.25 x 1.1 x 7.75 inches; 255 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
75741London: Flegon Press. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 third printing. Trade paperback. Good. 170 6 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel 13 July O.S. 1 July 1894 - 27 January 1940 was a Russian-language journalist playwright literary translator historian and Bolshevik revolutionary. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry Story of My Dovecote and Tales of Odessa all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". Loyal to but not uncritical of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge as a result of his long-term affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of 15 May 1939. After confessing under interrogation to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy he was shot on 27 January 1940. There is very little information about Babel's whereabouts during and after the October Revolution. According to one of his stories "The Road" he served on the Romanian front until early December 1917. He resurfaced in Petrograd in March 1918 as a reporter for Gorky's Menshevik newspaper Novaya zhizn "New Life". Babel continued publishing there until Novaya zhizn was forcibly closed on Lenin's orders in July 1918. In 1920 Babel was assigned to Komandarm Semyon Budyonny's 1st Cavalry Army witnessing a military campaign of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. Virtually all of the newly independent neighbors began fighting over borders. He documented the horrors of the war he witnessed in the 1920 Diary which he later used to write Red Cavalry Konarmiya a collection of short stories such as "Crossing the River Zbrucz" and "My First Goose". The horrific violence of Red Cavalry seemed to harshly contrast the gentle nature of Babel himself. Flegon Press paperback
185399300X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
192892207Paris: Les Editions Rieder 1928. Softcover. Near Fine. First French edition. Printed wrappers. Slight sunning to the spine and extremities a very near fine copy. One of 1800 copies on Alfa paper of a total edition of 1936. Les Editions Rieder unknown
0140180079.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1h15568Malik Verlag Bln. 1931. 329 S. leinen etwas fleckig. unknown
193116783Berlin: Malik-Verlag 1931. 1. - 4. Tausend. Hardcover. g. Sm 8vo. 3302pp. Tan cloth. Some discoloration and staining to boards. Minor chipping to head of spine. Ribbon marker. Faded stamp on free front endpaper. Slight age yellowing to outer edges of pages. Fascinating collection of works by Isaak Emmanuilowitsch Babel 1894-1940. Babel was executed by the Stalin regime for supposedly spying for the West which of course was a lie. Translated from Russian into German by Dmitrij Umanskij. Good condition. Malik-Verlag hardcover
19311913Moscow: GIKHL 1931. 140 3 pp. 19x125 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Slightly rubbed and bumped otherwise mint.<br /> <br /> First full edition of the well-known literary cycle.<br /> <br /> Jewish writer Isaak Babel 1894-1940 was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Odesa Commercial School and the Kyiv Commercial Institute. While studying Babel made his literary debut with a story “Old Shloime†1913.<br /> In the early Soviet period Babel was under the patronage of M. Gorky and M. Koltsov. In 1921 he worked in the Odesa Provincial Committee being the producing editor of the 7th Soviet printing house a reporter in Tiflis and Odesa at the State Publishing House of Ukraine. It was the period when he began to create the cycle “ Odesa Storiesâ€. At the same time Babel published in the Odesa periodicals “Lava†Drift and “Moriak†Sailor. In 1923-1924 the magazines “Lef†“Krasnaya Novâ€<br /> and other large publications published a row of his stories which later formed the cycles “Cavalry†and “ Odesa Storiesâ€. Babel immediately received wide recognition as a brilliant master of words. “ Odesa stories†are set in the Odesa ghetto of Moldavanka both before and after the October Revolution. Separately the works were published in periodicals in 1921-1924 but were finally collected in the 1931 book.<br /> <br /> During the struggle with formalism and the start of the social realist era Babel noted ironically that “he mastered a new literary genre the genre of silenceâ€. In 1932 he went to Paris and stayed there for a while doubting whether he needed to return to the USSR. He also managed to visit France in 1935 as part of the delegation of Soviet writers to the International Congress of Writers. In 1939 Babel was arrested and executed. Republished several times until the murder of the<br /> author “ Odesa Stories†were returned to print in the de-Stalinization period.<br /> <br /> Worldcat shows paper copies located in Texas University and Vassar College. GIKHL unknown
1929538803London: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. First English edition. Orange cloth stamped in black. A little rubbing on the spine topstain a bit faded else near fine lacking the dust jacket. The U.K. edition was reportedly issued in very small numbers. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
__3428000447Duncker & Humblot 1965. Paperback. New. 96 pages. German language. 9.13x6.14x0.24 inches. Duncker & Humblot paperback
2738486290.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
180454651Halae : Officina Batheana 1804. 245x195mm. 1 Kunstbltter broschiert. 78 Officina Batheana unknown
196368922E-029: Geneve. Very Good. 1963. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Genève imprimerie de la tribune de Genève Switzerland. 1963 xxvii 398 pgs 369-711 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mixtures of economic and social history in tribute to Professor Antony Babel on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 718 pages . Geneve paperback
2016x-1107072387Cambridge Univ Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
20211-0816543402Univ of Arizona Pr 2021. Paperback. New. 265 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. Univ of Arizona Pr paperback