New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First American Edition. x, 213, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering, red topstain. Near Fine with toned pages, dust-soiled edges, vintage bookseller's ticket to rear paste down. In About Very Good unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket, chipped and rubbed at edges, three pinhole-sized chips..... More
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1967. Uncorrected advance proof copy of the first British edition. Bound in drab tan wraps, with light general wear and a bit of foxing to the top edge of the page block, in dust jacket with a bit of fading to the red printing on..... 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; text in Russian. Near Fine, with light soiling and light shelf wear to wraps. Pages lightly toned. A scarce and important title, published in book form here for the very first time following a two-volume magazine serialization. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's plastic comb bound wraps, lacking the rear cover. Good. A good majority of the binding's teeth are broken, and the front cover is detached and torn along the top half. Pages toned. A...... 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
London: Collins Harvill, 1967. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. One creased corner and pages lightly tanned, else Fine in a Near Fine or better dust jacket with a faint crease to the spine panel, trivial soiling mostly..... 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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First American edition. vi, 314 pp. Bound in publisher's dark ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, tips worn, rear hinge starting, lacking dust jacket. An attractive copy. Includes the stories "Dreams," "Overseasoned," and "In the Ravine." More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First American edition. [v], 251 pp. Bound in publisher's dark ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, rubbed along edges, lacking dust jacket. An attractive copy. Includes the stories "Gooseberries" and "The Lady with the Toy Dog." 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
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First American edition. [vi], 340, [9] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blind stamped with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+, small rub spot to spine, corners bumped, former owner's name on front free endpaper. Lacking jacket. Internally bright. A collection of short stories by..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First British edition. vi, 273 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good, spine a bit darkened, wear at extremities, staining to back board. Names written in ink on front free endpaper including P. Beaumont Wadsworth, translator of..... 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 state ads at rear. 456, (1, ad) pp. Original dark yellow cloth lettered in maroon and gilt, floral endpapers. Very Good with spine lettering dulled, cloth at head and tail chipped, small stain and scratch to spine, a bit of..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1884. First French edition. Two books in one volume, complete. Green cloth and gilt-stamped spine with paper-covered boards, leather tips. Translated from the original Russian by Victor Derely. pp. 334, 308. About Very Good condition. Foxing throughout. Small tear to title and adjacent pages. The first French..... 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