Moscow: State Publishing House of Fiction, 1958. First edition of Anna Akhmatova's 1958 poetry collection. Association copy signed by Anna Akhmatova on the title page and inscribed to Ilya Ehrenburg's literary secretary, Natalya Ivanovna Stolyarova, and dated October 1959. 131, [1] pp. with errata slip tipped to final leaf. Bound..... More
Paris: YMCA Press, 1967. First edition in book form; text in Russian. Very good. Mild shelf lean. Wraps lightly soiled, toned, and with a 2-inch split at the head of the front spine joint. Pages toned, bottom corners bumped, previous owner name inked to title page. A scarce and important..... More
Paris: YMCA Press, 1967. First edition in book form. 219, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Text in Russian. Very Good with small stain to wraps along front joint, a few other faint stains and toning to wraps, wear at head and tail, slight crease and roll to spine..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First American edition. vi, 195, (36, ads); iv, 202 pp. Two Volumes. Original cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Good+ copies with chipped and well-worn labels (still legible), boards stained and edge-worn, moderate to heavy foxing throughout contents. Textblock of Vol. 1 split..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Signed by Ivan Bunin on the title page in black ink, some initial bleed. 313 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with purple title labels and gilt lettering, purple topstain, patterned endpapers. Very Good+ with sunning to spine label, rear hinge..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1922. First British edition. [viii], 86, [2] pp. with tipped-in errata sheet. Publisher's patterned boards with paper title labels. A Near Fine copy with typical toning and light wear to spine label, edge-rubbing to boards, foxing to endsheets. A beautifully-designed collection of four stories by the..... More
St. Petersburg: Znanie, 1904. First publication of the classic play The Cherry Orchard anywhere. 324 pp. Original gray wrappers with full margins. In Russian. Near Fine with toning and light soiling, front wrapper expertly reattached, a few small rub spots to back wrap, contents have light thumb-soiling and slight edge-curling..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First American edition. [vi], 312 pp. Original green cloth, blind stamped with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+, lacking the rare jacket, with two small circular stains to front board, former owner's info stamped on front free endpaper. Internally bright. A collection of short stories..... More
Boston: Benjamin R. Tucker, Publisher, 1886. First English-language edition, scarce wrappered issue, published simultaneously with the cloth. [ii, author's portrait], 329, [5, adverts extending to verso of rear wrap] pp. Bound in publisher's tan decorative printed wraps. Near Fine with shallow chipping along edges of wraps (heaviest at head); front..... More
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London & New York: J. M. Dent / E. P. Dutton, 1913. First edition in English of Dostoevsky's landmark novel. In the publisher's rare deluxe half pigskin binding, with spine lettered in gilt; all edges stained dark brown. Also published in this volume are the first English appearances of two..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1881. First American edition, and Dostoevsky's first publication in the United States. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt. Very Good with lean and toning to spine with wear to spine ends, scratch and area of rubbing to rear..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, first printing with first state ads at rear listing this title at $1.50 and two other books by the author as "In press." 456, [1, ad], [1] pp. Frontispiece of the author with tissue guard intact. Bound in publisher's blue cloth..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First printing of the first edition to be translated by Constance Garnett. Bound in publisher's original gray cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine light rubbing to edges and spine ends, light toning to spine, light soiling to textblock edge..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. (Hole-punched stamp "Advance Copy for Review / Not for Sale" on title page. First state titles opposite title page without this title mentioned. Follows the British edition, using British sheets.) Very Good+ with light shelf wear..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Fr. Wilh. Grunow, 1884. First German edition, cloth issue published by newspaper Die Grenzboten as noted on half-titles and spines, published simultaneously with wrappered and red cloth issues, neither with half titles. Complete in four octavo volumes. Volume I: Half-title + TP + [v] - viii+1leaf +..... More
London: John and Robert Maxwell, [1887]. First printing of this translation. viii, 308 pp. Bound in recent navy cloth with leather backstrip, ruled and lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Fine binding. Contents Very Good+ with a few tiny stains to fore edge and reading smudges. A rare early English translation..... More
St. Petersburg, Russia: Pateleevyi Brothers, 1881 [but December 1880]. First edition in book form. Two volumes, rare with the half-titles present. 509; 699 pp. Text in the original Russian. Near-contemporary quarter calf, pebble-grain black cloth sides, spines with gilt lettering in Cyrillic, initials to foot of spines. Very Good, a...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First edition thus. Title page dated 1917, with other Dostoevsky titles on facing page with White Nights (shortly) and An Honest Thief (in progress). The first American appearance of The Double. The Eternal Husband was first translated by Whishaw as The Permanent Husband, paired..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First thus. (Title page dated 1920. First Garnett translation, following the Vizetelly edition that paired this novel with The Gambler.) About Very Good with rubbed edges, dulled gilt, cloth a little faded, pages toned and brittle, light pencil underlines on a few pages. The..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First American edition. xvi, 187, [1], [8, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black stamping to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine, toning to spine, mottling to cloth, bright and clean internally. Contemporary bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper.The remarkable Russian..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First American edition. xvi, 187, [1], [8, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black stamping to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Very Good with light wear to cloth, darkening to spine, insect hole to top margin of last few dozen pages and ads..... More
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854. First edition in English of Gogol's masterpiece Dead Souls which is widely hailed as one of the most important works of 19th-century Russian literature. Two volumes. A fantastic copy, bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited edition. Copy 1182 of 1200 copies signed by artist Lucille Corcos at rear colophon of second volume. xvi, [iv], 308; [vi], 309-484, [2] pp. Publisher's blue boards with red buckram backstrips, stamped in gilt, all edges stained red; housed in original blue..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, scarce single-volume issue. (First complete translation into English as well, following the British partial translation of 1854. This issue not mentioned in Line. Apparently same sheets as two volume issue but with different font spine lettering, plain endpapers, and no ads;..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, scarce single-volume issue comprising of two separately paginated volumes bound into one. (First complete translation into English as well, following the British partial translation of 1854. This issue not mentioned in Line. Apparently same sheets as two volume issue but with..... More