| Author | Title/Short description | Price (Euro) |
| Kraevski, Lev | Golod serdtsa. Novelly i rasskazy. Berlin, Heinrich Caspari Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911. 136 p. | €400 |
| More information |
| 8vo, original covers. Boxed
in a custom made box with gilt tooled labels. Collection of erotic stories. Some of the stories couldn´t be printed in Russia due to strict censorial regulations and found publisher in Berlin. Kravskii´s books were sold through a chain of bokkdealers outside Russia, specializing in sales of russian emigre literature to tourists from Russia. The book was popular with russian emigres through 1930´s, and it was still considered as "the literature for adults" even by 1930´s. Kraevskii book could be considered along with Mikhail Arstybashev´s Sanin and U poslednei cherty as incunabula of 20th century russian erotic and sensual literature. |