Russian Literature & History
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First edition. 8vo. pp. [2], table of contents, 169 including title (with slight discolouration) and half-title. Contemporary black calf backed brown cloth, speckled edges; rebacked to style.
£475 -
Second editions, 3 vols in one. 8vo (25.5 x 20 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece by Nikolai Utkin after A. Notbek, 73 (incl. half-title and title), [2]; 50pp.; 82pp.; contemporary half-leather over green boards; rebacked.
£1,250 -
First edition; 12mo (15 x 11.5 cm); original wrappers printed in black and red, designed by P. Alekseev; stamp to inside back cover; 57, [5] pp; a very good copy.
£375 -
Octavo (22 x 15, 5 cm). VIII pp., including half title and title, 106 pp., [2 pp.]; occasional light spotting.
£950 -
First edition; 8vo (23.5 x 17.5 cm). Half-title, frontispiece, title, 25 illustrations including full-page. Presentation inscription to upper fly-leaf. Original publisher's cloth; rubbed.
£450 -
8vo (22.5 x 17.5 cm). 168 pp. with 5 plates, including 1 colour, illustrations in text. Publisher's cloth; light occasional spotting, slightly rubbed and stained.
£500 -
Fifth issue ('fourth edition'); 12 vols; 8vo; contemporary half vellum over grey boards by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, flat spine lettered in black, top edges gilt; very lightly soiled.
£2,250 -
Small 4to (13.4 x 17.1 cm). 8pp. with 3 full-page illustrations and 2 in text; inscribed in green ink to first paper. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers, upper wrapper lettered and decorated in black, white and blue, lower wrapper lettered and with publisher's trademark; inscribed in green ink to upper wrapper, a bit soiled.
£300 -
8vo (24.5 x 17 cm). VIII, 86, 73-182, 93-162, 93-120, 121-162, 31-64, 29-82, 115-216, 3-4, IV, [8] pp.; occasional spotting. Pagination as per index, complete copy. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt lettering, original wrappers bound in; extremities rubbed, boards worn.
£2,750 -
KUPRIN, Alexandr [and others].Poedinok [v] Sbornike Tovarishchestva 'Znanie' za 1905 god. Kinfga 6.
First publication; 8vo (21 x 15 cm). Title, contents, 320 pp., [2] (Duel takes pp. 1-288); ink mark to title page, some marginalia. Contemporary half cloth binding over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt lettering; covers and hinges slightly rubbed.
£1,250