![DOSTOEVSKY’S FINAL WORK] Brat’ia Karamazovy [i.e. The Brothers Karamazov]: [In 2 vol.]. F. M....](/pictures/thumb/1343.jpg?v=1650337011)
St. Petersburg: Tip. brat. Panteleevykh, 1881. Vol. 1. 509 pp. Vol.2. [2], 699 pp. 21x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather bindings with gilt lettering and amateur tooling on spines. In good condition. Professionally restored bindings, foxing, and light soiling throughout the copies, handwritten notes reproducing some printed lines of half-titles and title..... More
![THE FIRST EDITION OF TURGENEV’S FATHERS AND SONS] Otsy i deti [i.e. Fathers and Sons]. I. Turgenev](/pictures/thumb/1342.jpg?v=1650336721)
Moscow: tip. V. Grachiova, 1862. 304 pp. In contemporary Italian half-leather. Gilt ornament on the spine. 24x17 cm. Pre-revolutionary stamps of the Russian library in Rome on the title page alongside the inventory numbers, otherwise a good tall fresh copy of an important and rare book. The first..... More
![THE FIRST EDITION OF PUSHKIN] Boris Godunov. A. S. Pushkin](/pictures/thumb/1340.jpg?v=1650335998)
St. Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education, 1831. [6], 142 p. 21x13,3 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather, restored (spine is rebacked). Endpapers have water damage, not affecting the block of the book. A handwritten contemporary line on the title page (author’s surname), otherwise a good attractive copy with..... More
![FIRST NEKRASOV’S WHO IS HAPPY IN RUSSIA?] Komu na Rusi zhit’ khorosho [i.e. Who ls Happy in...](/pictures/thumb/1249.jpg?v=1631710606)
St. Petersburg: M. Stasyulevich, 1880. [8], 145, 207 pp. 21,5x14 cm. Original publisher’s cloth with few bumps on the edges of the spine, but generally a very good copy. Extremely rare. No auction records found. The first separate edition of the poem which social resonance in Russian society is..... More
![DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST COMPLETE WORKS] Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [i.e. The Complete Works of...](/pictures/thumb/1243.jpg?v=1631709565)
St. Petersburg: Fyodor Stellovsky, 1865-1870. Vol.1-4. 274,[1]; 256,[1]; 374,[2]; 225 pp. 26x19 cm. Two half-leather period bindings. New endpapers. Pre-revolutionary stamps of St. Petersburg bookseller on title pages. The owner’s inscription in pencil (Nikitin) on the title page of vol.3. Otherwise very good. Complete with advertisement of the publisher in..... More
![RUSLAN AND LYUDMILA ILLUSTRATED BY KUSTODIEV] Ruslan and Lyudmila. A. Pushkin](/pictures/thumb/1010.jpg?v=1591961374)
Petersburg: Gosizdat, 1921. 120 pp.: ill. 19,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears with small losses of spine, tears and small losses of blank margin of p. 115-117, stains occasionally. Cover design and 25 illustrations, head-, tail-pieces and a small portrait of Pushkin were produced by well-known artist..... More
![THE SECOND BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Detstvo i otrochestvo [i.e. Childhood and Boyhood]. L. Tolstoy](/pictures/thumb/951.jpg?v=1582649993)
St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1856. [4], 307 pp. 18,4x12 cm. Contemporary half-leather. Narrow strip of paper added to the top of the title page. Very good and clean copy. First edition of Tolstoy’s second book. Rare. Tolstoy’s second book encapsulates the first two parts of his well-known semi-autobiographical..... More
![FIRST NABOKOV’S NOVEL] Mashen'ka. V. Nabokov, V. Sirin](/pictures/thumb/648.jpg?v=1554871526)
Berlin: Slovo, 1926. 169, VI pp. 19,5x13,5 cm. Original printed wrappers. Edges and the label on the front wrapper are foxed. Partly uncut. Small crack of the spine. Generally in very good condition. Stamp ‘Vera V. Borodin’ on the title page and p.9. First edition of the first..... More
Three letters and signed book by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the letters and inscription are unpublished. 1. Pasternak, Boris. Okhrannaia gramota [i.e. The Protection]. Leningrad, 1931. 128 pp. 18x12,5 cm. In original cardboards. First edition of Pasternak’s autobiographical book, dedicated to his pre-revolutionary life. Inscribed by Pasternak on the half-title..... More
![DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST EDITION] Podrostok [i.e. The Adolescent]. F. M. Dostoevsky](/pictures/thumb/428.jpg?v=1519818910)
St. Petersburg: A. Transhel, 1876. Parts 1-3. [2], 247, [2], 184, [2], 277 pp. 21x14 cm. Contemporary half leather. The ticket of Borodin’s bindery in Saint Petersburg on the rear endpaper. Gilt lettering on the spine. Very good, some foxing. First edition. The fourth of the ‘Dostoevsky’s big..... More
![SYNOPSIS OF TOLSTOY] Kratkoe izvlechenie iz Evangeliya v perevode L.N. Tolstogo [i.e. The Brief...](/images/noimage.png)
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
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
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
![FIRST OF SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES] Sevastopol’ v dekabre mesiatse // Sovremennik. #6 [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/208.jpg?v=1594811040)
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 November 1854..... More
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
St. Petersburg: v tipografii Eduarda Pratsa, 1852. Pp. 7, [1], 134, 124, 32, 16, 38, 124, [1]. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter calf, cloth sides, a little surface wear, later endpapers, preserving the original printed wrappers (‘Sovremennik 1852 No. IX, sentiabr’), guarded in the gutter. Without the final leaf from the..... More