BARING, Maurice. Russian Essays and Stories. London: Methuen & Co., [1908]. 8°. Half title. Original red cloth gilt (without a dust-jacket). Provenance: Maurice Baring (ex-libris sticker [designed by Hilaire Belloc]). FIRST EDITION. Laid down on the front free endpaper is a printed presentation label from the British Embassy in Paris recording the gift of the book, inscribed, “Lady Reid in memory of her brother Maurice Baring.” With 7 other books by the same author, namely His Majesty’s Embassy & Other Plays (London, [1923]), Diminutive Dramas … Third Impression (London, [1923]), Dead Letters (London, [1925]), Comfortless Memory (London, [1928]), Lost Lectures (London, 1932), Sarah Bernhardt ([London], 1933, SIGNED by the author) and Darby and Joan (London, [1935]), all with printed labels recording the book as a gift to the British Embassy in Paris, all with the Belloc plate, and all but one SIGNED by the author.