![Item #2125 [FIRST OF SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES] Sevastopol’ v dekabre mesiatse // Sovremennik. #6...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2125.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724770367)
St. Petersburg: 1855. Pp. 333-348. 24x15 cm. Modern binding. Original printed wrapper preserved. Some soiling and stains of some pages, pen marks on the front wrapper, occasional foxing. Otherwise very good. First publication. The short story was based on Tolstoy’s first impressions from being in Sevastopol in..... More
![Item #2126 [FIRST SHORT STORY BY TOLSTOY] Nabeg. Rasskaz volontiora // Sovremennik. Tom 39 [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724770816)
St. Petersburg: 1853. Pp. 93-120. 24x15 cm. Modern binding, two last leaves (Contents) with restoration, one page with small loss of the text (not Tolstoy). Otherwise very good. First publication of 'The Raid' and second publication of anything by Tolstoy. The story is based on Tolstoy’s own experience as..... More
![Item #2133 [FIRST THE CUTTING OF THE FOREST AND SECOND SEVASTOPOL SKETCH]. L. N Tolstoy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2133.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724781266)
St. Petersburg: 1855. Noch. Vesnoiu 1855 goda v Sevastopole // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Night. Sevastopol in Spring of 1855 // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 5-30. Rubka lesa // Sovremennik. Tom LIII [i.e. The Cutting of the Forest // The Contemporary. Vol. LIII]. Pp. 35-68. 24x15 cm..... More
![Item #214 [SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/214.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724780562)
1902. Manuscript. 89 pp. 22x17,5 cm. Inscription ‘K. Gorbachev. Moscow. 1902’ on the endpaper. Owner’s contemporary binding. Brass corners on the front cover. Good condition. Handwritten notes to unrelated book at the back. The rare example of the handwritten summary of Tolstoy’s adaptation of Gospels. It was made in..... More
![Item #429 [ANNA KARENINA: FIRST EDITION]. L. N Tolstoy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/429.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519819171)
Moscow: Typ. T. Ris, 1878. In 3 volumes. V.1: Part 1-2. 369 pp.; V.2: Part 3-5. 493 pp.; V.3: Part 6-8. 413 pp. 19x12 cm. Each volume in publisher’s full cloth with gilt and blind stamping. In period styled half leather case. Near fine. First separate edition. Very rare..... More
![Item #2339 [ANNA KARENINA: FIRST EDITION] Anna Karenina. Roman [i.e. Anna Karenina. The novel]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2339.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742897623)
Moscow: Typ. T. Ris, 1878. In 3 volumes. V.1: Part 1-2. 369 pp.; V.2: Part 3-5. 493 pp.; V.3: Part 6-8. 413 pp. 19x12 cm. Each volume in half-leather modern boards. Volumes are very clean internally, the beginnings of the first and second volumes has annotations in period pencil. The..... More
![Item #210 [FIRST BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Voyennyie rasskazy [i.e. The War Stories]. L. N Tolstoy](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/210.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483923726)
St. Petersburg: Tipografiya glavnogo chtaba e.i.v. po voenno-uchebnym zavedeniyam, 1856. [4], 382, 1 pp. 19,5x13 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Raised bands, the title, author’s name and previous owner’s initials gilt on the spine. The first book by the author. Rare. According to N. Smirnov-Sokolskii it took him ‘quite a...... More
![Item #212 [TOLSTOY ASKS THE QUESTION] Tak chto zhe nam delat’ [i.e. What Is To Be Done?]. L. N...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724760811)
1880-1890s. [311 leaves]. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript with the extracts of the printed text glued to some pages. Contemporary half-leather binding. Owner’s inscription on the title page ‘Presented to my dear friend Taniechka by M. What is to be done? is the publicistic discourse that Tolstoy wrote in 1884-1886 as..... More