![TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883). Dvorianskoe gnezdo. Roman. [A Nest of Gentlefolk, sometimes: Home of the Gentry.] Moscow: A.I. Glazunov, 1859.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0044_000(turgenev_ivan_sergeevich_dvorianskoe_gnezdo_roman_a_nest_of_gentlefolk104420).jpg?w=1)
Details
TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883). Dvorianskoe gnezdo. Roman. [A Nest of Gentlefolk, sometimes: Home of the Gentry.] Moscow: A.I. Glazunov, 1859.
The first edition of 'the most universally acclaimed work that Turgenev ever wrote, [it] provoked an enormous quantity of literature, both at the time and later' (Schapiro). RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. The novel was serialised in Sovremennik in the same year. Kilgour 1222; Schapiro, Turgenev. His Life and Times (Harvard: 1982), p.153.
Twelvemo(197 x 127mm). (Half-title repaired in the inside margin; browned and dampstained throughout.) 19th-century green half morocco (a remboitage). Provenance: Rubinskii (signature in bottom margin of p.71) – M.I. Kairovskii (blind-stamp).
The first edition of 'the most universally acclaimed work that Turgenev ever wrote, [it] provoked an enormous quantity of literature, both at the time and later' (Schapiro). RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. The novel was serialised in Sovremennik in the same year. Kilgour 1222; Schapiro, Turgenev. His Life and Times (Harvard: 1982), p.153.
Twelvemo(197 x 127mm). (Half-title repaired in the inside margin; browned and dampstained throughout.) 19th-century green half morocco (a remboitage). Provenance: Rubinskii (signature in bottom margin of p.71) – M.I. Kairovskii (blind-stamp).
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Sven Becker