The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff

Los 1250
17.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
Aufgeldsee on Website%
ID 1336774
Los 1250 | The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff
Schätzwert
$ 2 500 – 3 500
TURGENEV, Ivan (1818–1883). The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903–04. Limited edition, no. 95 of 204 copies printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper.

Collected prose fiction of Russian literary vanguard and contemporary of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, in a handsome edition. For his oeuvre, recorded in this deluxe edition produced shortly after his death, Turgenev was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1879 for proliferating Russian literature abroad – becoming the first novelist of any nation to receive this honour.

16 vols., quarto (155 × 227 mm). Half-titles, title-pages printed with Turgenev’s cipher in green on yellow field, additional title-pages printed in black, red and yellow with photogravure frontispieces on japon, additional plates. Publisher’s uniform half crushed levant brown morocco over light brown cloth, with gilt titling and ornamentation on spines, deckle edges, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, signed Stikeman & Co. (very light wear).
Adresse der Versteigerung CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Vereinigtes Königreich
Vorschau
04.12.2024 – 17.12.2024
Telefon +44 (0)20 7839 9060
E-Mail
Aufgeld see on Website
NutzungsbedingungenNutzungsbedingungen

Verwandte Begriffe

?>
× Ein Suchabonnement erstellen