Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818 - 1883) | Dym. Soch. Iv.Turgeneva. 2-e izdanie. Leipzig, Wolfgang Gerhard, 1876. 326 p. | €1500,00 |
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8 vo, better quality 3/4 leather binding with a date '1876' and the name of the first owner inscribed on the back of the front cover in black ink. Two line gilt lettering on the spine: 'Turgenjev - Dim.' VERY GOOD. Turgenev's novel Smoke, was published in 1867 and was received less than enthusiastically in his native country, as well as triggering a quarrel with Dostoyevsky in Baden-Baden. 'Half-title with the text 'Dym' preserved. An important preface by Ivan Turgenev to the second edition (Baden-Baden, April 1868) on pp.5-7. Not in StaBi, Stanford, 'New' Turgenev museum in Russia. See: Mikhailovskii, N. Turgenev, ego tridtsatiletniia literaturnaia deiatel´nost´ i ego tipy. Voroneszh, 1872, p.86-94. |