Title: Lot of 9 LEC Russian Literature volumes Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1933-76 Description: With: Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov. 3 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Revised, with intro. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illus. by Alexander King. 8x5¼, cloth-backed dec. boards, slipcase worn with bottom edge detached (fair to good). 1 of 1500 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 1933. * Gogol, Nikolai. [Dead Souls]; Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia. 2 volumes. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinksy. Illustrated in color by Lucille Corcos 8½x5½, cloth-backed dec.boards, glassines, enclosing cloth case. Newsletter, laid in. 1 of 1200 copies printed by The Akerman-Standard Press in Providence, 1944. * Gogol. The Overcoat and the Government Inspector. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by Alfred Kazin. Illus. with engravings by Saul Field. 10½x6½, cloth, glassine. 1 of 2000 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Co., 1976. * Chekhov. Two Plays of...The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Lajos Szalay 9½x6¾, ¼ leather & red brocade cloth. 1 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press, 1966. * The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. Selected by Helen Muchnic. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Lajos Szalay 10x6¾, full brocade cloth, leather spine label. 1 of 2000 copies from the press of A. Colish, 1973. * Pushkin. The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories. Trans. by Ivy & Tatiana Litvinov. Illus. with full-page lithographs & monochrome drawings by Charles Mozley 12½x8¼, green buckram. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Westerham Press, 1971. * Turgenev. The Torrents of Spring. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Illus. by Lajos Szalay 9½x6½, ¼ calf & marbled boards. 1 of 1600 copies printed at the press of A. Colish, 1976. Together, 9 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases. Each signed by the illustrator in the colophon. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear overall, volumes near fine to fine, slipcases mostly very good or better, except one. Item number: 191679
Title: Lot of 9 LEC Russian Literature volumes Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1933-76 Description: With: Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov. 3 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Revised, with intro. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illus. by Alexander King. 8x5¼, cloth-backed dec. boards, slipcase worn with bottom edge detached (fair to good). 1 of 1500 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 1933. * Gogol, Nikolai. [Dead Souls]; Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia. 2 volumes. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinksy. Illustrated in color by Lucille Corcos 8½x5½, cloth-backed dec.boards, glassines, enclosing cloth case. Newsletter, laid in. 1 of 1200 copies printed by The Akerman-Standard Press in Providence, 1944. * Gogol. The Overcoat and the Government Inspector. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by Alfred Kazin. Illus. with engravings by Saul Field. 10½x6½, cloth, glassine. 1 of 2000 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Co., 1976. * Chekhov. Two Plays of...The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Lajos Szalay 9½x6¾, ¼ leather & red brocade cloth. 1 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press, 1966. * The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. Selected by Helen Muchnic. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Lajos Szalay 10x6¾, full brocade cloth, leather spine label. 1 of 2000 copies from the press of A. Colish, 1973. * Pushkin. The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories. Trans. by Ivy & Tatiana Litvinov. Illus. with full-page lithographs & monochrome drawings by Charles Mozley 12½x8¼, green buckram. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Westerham Press, 1971. * Turgenev. The Torrents of Spring. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Illus. by Lajos Szalay 9½x6½, ¼ calf & marbled boards. 1 of 1600 copies printed at the press of A. Colish, 1976. Together, 9 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases. Each signed by the illustrator in the colophon. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear overall, volumes near fine to fine, slipcases mostly very good or better, except one. Item number: 191679
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