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
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
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
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: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First American edition, first printing with title page dated 1912. Gray cloth with gilt lettering and top stain. Very Good. Cloth toned at spine, rubbed through at corners and with shallow chipping at crown. Pages toned. A rare first American edition of a Russian..... 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, 1912. First American edition. (First printing with title page dated 1912.) xii, 838, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gilt lettering and topstain. Very Good with light mottling and edge-rubbing to cloth, wear at tips, former owner's name written on front free endpaper..... 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
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. The final volume of The Novels of Fyodor..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. (Sheets printed in the UK, so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year.) [viii], 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed, else..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. First British edition. xvi, 344 pp. Original black cloth with paper spine label. Very Good with chipped and worn spine label, , bumped corners and small chip at foot, gift inscription on front free endpaper, some offsetting to endpapers. A collection of the famous Russian..... More
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Ltd., 1893. First illustrated edition, uncertain issue and publication date. (Undated title page, which may not be an issue point. Turner's The Walter Scott Publishing Company apparently examined a single paperback copy with a title page dated 1911 and no illustrations, while..... More
London: Vizetelly and Company, 1887. First single-volume British edition. (Dated title page. Follows two-volume issues in 1854 under a different title, 1886, and 1887. See Line, Ettlinger, and Gladstone.) x, 11-372 p. Original blue cloth with black lettering, blue endpapers. Translated by Isabel Hapgood, uncredited. Very Good. Split hinges, textblock..... 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
London: John and Robert Maxwell, [1887]. First complete edition in English, British issue. Also the first edition under this title. (Line p. 19.) [iv], 364; [iv], 282, [3] pp. Bound by Cawthorn & Hutt in three quarter red leather with marbled-paper sides, spine with six compartments, navy and yellow leather..... More