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

Moscow: Soyuz pisateley, 1966, 1967. First edition. The first appearance of Bulgakov's oft-banned masterpiece, serialized in two issues of the conservative Soviet journal Moskva. 6-[130], [56]-144 pp. Two volumes bound together in contemporary cloth, lacking the original printed wraps, titles, and contents besides the novel; half-titles glued onto blank endpapers..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First American edition, first printing. vi, 394 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red and gilt lettering to spine, mustard yellow topstain and endpapers. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, bump to upper corner of rear board and jacket, and light foxing..... 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

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 300, [10] pp. with eight advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Very Good with dulling to spine gilt, moderate wear to extremities, and dampstain to upper front..... 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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