Search results for: 'TOLSTOY, Leo'
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TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace.London : 1886
First English edition of War and Peace, rare in commerce, published in October 1886 in the first flush of enthusiasm for previously disregarded Russian novelists. Russomania was first detectable in France, where Vizetelly had spent 12 years of his working life. After his return to England in 1878, the output of his new firm, Vizetelly & Co., consisted... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 137493
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TOLSTOY, Leo. Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth.London : 1888
First UK edition of the complete trilogy in English; the translation, by I. F. Hapgood, was originally published at New York by T. Y. Crowell in 1886. The UK edition is very uncommon: Copac and OCLC together locating six copies in British and institutional libraries (BL, NLS, Cambridge, Leeds, Sussex, London Library), and another six abroad. Tolstoy's... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 124051
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TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace.London : [1889]
First translation into English from the original Russian, UK issue. This translation was the work of American editor and translator Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935), issued in the same year in the US and UK, with the UK issue published in four volumes and omitting the translator's preface (Walter Scott reissued the work in two volumes in 1897). Two versions... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 135420
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Collection of 40 books from his personal library, retrieved by his friends and agents, the Bruce family.1906-50
The collection includes 40 books from Ernest Hemingway's personal library, including nine books signed by Hemingway, and 18 books inscribed to Hemingway from family and fellow authors and editors. Many are from childhood and young adolescence, yet some track across Hemingway's travels in Spain, Paris, and back to the United States. Due to the books'... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 107595
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(RUSSIA: ST PETERSBURG.) MORNAY (illus.) A Picture of St. Petersburgh,London : 1815
First edition, "one of the most beautiful plate books of St. Petersburg" (Bobins Collection). Published at six guineas coloured, this is a superb record of the city of Peter the Great - captured in the wake of the Napoleonic wars - and divided into two sections; the first 12 plates represent the months of the year through characteristic views of the... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 120459
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Zapiski iz mertvago doma (Notes from the House of the Dead).St Petersburg : 1862
First complete edition, very rare presentation copy to Aleksandr Petrovich Miliukov (1817-1897), inscribed by the author in Russian at the head of the first half-title, "Aleksandr Petrovich Miliukov, from the author, in memory, with respect and sincere devotion".
A superb association for this novel. Miliukov and Dostoevsky's brother Mikhail were... Learn More£185,000.00Stock Code: 125557
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(TOLSTOI, Alexei.) GOLDENVEIZER, A. B. Talks with Tolstoi.Richmond : 1923
First edition in English, first impression, first published in 1922. A composer, Goldenveizer was a close friend of Tolstoy in his youth and transcribed many conversations that they had together, which are collected in this work. According to Woolmer an alternative binding of plain cloth was done for a minority of copies. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 122499
