Tolstoi Count Lyof Dole Nathan (23 results)

Hard back binding in publisher's original midnight blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 343 printed pages of text. Spine ends and corners turned-in with shallow rubs, age tanning to the end papers, ink marking to the front free end paper dated 1901 and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No edition. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. The boards are edge worn, cocked, a bit chipped and marked. Previous ownership inscription, tanning, age related marks. However, it is still in fair condition considering age, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. No Jacket. Lacks half title page and title page. Typical library marks; normal scuffs and soils. A readable copy. 311 pages. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A gift book from the late nineteenth century. Faux white leather binding with floral decoration on the front cover. Light wear to the binding. Some soiling to the front and rear covers. A birthday gift presentation from 1904 on the front flyleaf. No odor. No water damage. 38pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dole, Nathan Haskell (illustrator). No date. 8vo. Pp 769, 4 (glossary). Frontis and 9 plates. 14 page publisher's catalogue. Original cloth, light marking, corners bruised, dent to centre of rear board. A nice copy.98.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First authorized edition published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, New York 1889. Four volumes in two blue cloth volumes with gold gilt embossing. Light rubbing to cloth boards at corners and spine, otherwise near fine. Binding square and tight. No loose pages or creasing to spine. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front board with owner's initials and date of 1906 in pencil. Minor flaw to corners of six pages in second volume slightly dog-eared. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. LIT 040125 First thus. Very nice blue hard cover with fairly mild wear, including tiny chipping of the cloth at head and heel of spine. Binding is good. Residue of a bookplate peeled off inside the front board. Gold is bright on the titling. Stories include: The Invaders; The Wood-cutting Expedition; An Old Acquaintence; Lost on the Steppe or The Snowstorm; Polikushka; Kholstomir: A Story of a Horse. 349pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American. (1897) 8vo. 1st American edition and first edition in english. Green cloth and gilt lettering. Darkening and fading to spine. Rubbing to spine ends. Bumping and rubbing to corners. Starting to front and rear hinges. Light toning to leaves. Illustrated endpapers. Mild overopening throughout. Darkening to top of textblock. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Early American Printing. Early American edition. This is a small trade sized hardback book with thin white paper covers (designed to look like leather) and gilt and blue floral decorations to the front cover. The covers have ground-in dirt and a spots of foxing to both the front and rear covers. The spine ends and spine joints have flaking and spots of wear to the leather, especially the top front spine joint and bottom front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The front and rear endpapers have noticeable spots of foxing. "In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. , and James Bevel. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection." (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1890. 243 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with library bookplate present to the front pastedown with library stamps present to the spine. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (mark removed from the spine). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Gospel in Brief is a 1892 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Included in a larger volume in 1892, the 1896 account published as The Gospel in Brief is notable in that it excludes many of the supernatural aspects of the original gospels, such as their claims of Jesus's divine origins and ability to perform miracles. Instead, the work focuses on Jesus's teachings to his followers, presumably those which Tolstoy found most compelling. The Gospel in Brief is thought by some to be deeply reflective of Tolstoy's own interpretation of Christianity. The Gospel in Brief is said to be the result of Tolstoy's close study of the original Koine Greek New Testament. The account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian Orthodox Church, which went so far as to excommunicate him for his writings on Christianity in 1901.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover in fair condition, large 8vo, pages: viii,[i],5-773. Green cloth with titles in gold, decoration in gold, green and red, dark green rules, top edge gilt, extra engraved title page with Tolstoi portrait, frontis portrait and title page illustration plus 10 (of 12) black-and-white plates (2 plates missing; pp 536 and 764), inner hinges cracked (reinforced with water-reversible tape), spine ends and tips worn and frayed, board edges worn, spine dulled, bookplate of Martha Platt Falconer, 1862-1941, Ohio-born social reformer and advocate for delinquent and homeless young women. Bookseller accession no.: 24002. Additional postage may be required for international shipment of this heavy volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards show scuffing, rubbing, and edgewear. Endpages show former owner's writing. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. viii + 349 pp + vi pp adverts, preface, includes "Lucerne", "Recollections of a Scorer", "Albert", "Two Hussars", "Three Deaths", "A Prisoner in the Caucasus". works written between 1852 and 1859. Binding tight, with slight forward lean; pages clean, unmarked, and well-preserved; Slightly age-darkened textblock edges. 5.4" x 7.8" brown cloth with gilt design. Light wear to spine top and tail clot & forecorner tips. in glassine wrapper Size: Small Octavo. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Paul Frenzeny (illustrator). 769, [4], [16] pages. Title page call for six illustrations by Paul Frenzeny; this copy has 10 plates including frontispiece. No stated date of issue. One volume edition, in publisher's blue cloth. Extremities rubbed. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Cigarette burn to page 285 as seen in photo; short closed tear to margin of page 415. Binding is sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. VG beige cloth 12mo hardcover with titling and decoration on front board. Poor dj is lacking rear panel. Small stain at spine head affecting boards only. English text. Text all clean and mark free. 1887 date on cp. Approx 20pp. Scarce.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Seond American Edition. In original green cloth with decorative gilt medallion front cover, top edge gilt, spine gilt, plain white endpapers. No other titles listed ahead of title page and no ads at back. viii, 5-773 pages with 14 illustrations. Two title pages, first with engraved portrait and tissue-guarded frontis illustration. A Very Good copy, front hinge cracked but holding nicely, spine faded yet legible, light wear to cloth at the tips, prior owner name and date front end page, occasional toning. Basis for 15 film versions from 1911-2012, and 6 TV versions, as well as operas, ballets, and musical theatres. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Undated c1889. Description: Blue cloth with gilt lettering, motif and design to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition> Fair: heavy wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Repaired spines to two volumes - see photos. Forward roll to two volumes. Tanned intact endpapers with strong hinges to all volumes. Tanned unmarked pages. Pages 359, 392, 424, 408 Plus Catalogue To Rear Of All Volumes. Size: 12mo (large), 19cm by 12.5cm. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. A lovely set of four volumes in two that published after the four volume first authorized American edition in olive cloth by the same publisher. In blue cloth and bright gilt. Top pages tinted blue, others tanned. Some wear to spine ends with a few tiny splits at tops, one to volume two may have had a drop of glue. Small faint stain to spine of volume one. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffeps, interiors otherwise clean and bindings solid. Early Printing.

First edition in English of Tolstoy's masterpiece with all the points of first issue: sheets bulk to 35 mm, floral patterned endpapers, "13 Astor Place" on title page, no front adverts, and 5 pp. of rear adverts not listing Russian titles. Octavo, original cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers. Introduction and translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.ÂIn very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as "a piece of life." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. First issued serially in 1873; first published in book form in Moscow in 1878. Upon first reading it, Dostoyevsky wrote: âAnna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.â.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover. Green cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Soil, edge wear and fraying. Sun darkened spine. Fore edge soil. Floral endpapers. Text pages are clean. First english edition with 6 titles facing the title page, 4 pages of ads in rear. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8VO.

17 vols in 20. 8vo (7½ x 5 ins). Rebound in contemporary uniform white buckram cloth, gilt lettered calf labels, top edges gilt, floral patterned endpapers (boards and spines lightly marked - otherwise a VG set. Pp. various (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs; no inscriptions). Childhood Boyhood Youth (n.d.), The Cossacks A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852 (n.d.), The Fruits of Enlightenment a Comedy in Four Acts (Heinemann 1891), The Invaders and Other Stories (1889), Ivan Ilyitch (n.d.), The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), The Kreutzer Sonata (n.d.), Life (n.d.), The Long Exile (n.d.), My Confession (n.d.), My Religion (n.d.), The Physiology of War Napoleon and the Russian Campaign and Power and Liberty (n.d.), A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories (n.d.), Sevastopol (n.d.), War and Peace (4 vols. n.d.), What to Do? (n.d.), Work While Ye Have the Light (Brotherhood Publishing 1895).

First Edition. A later issue of the first English-language edition. Octavo (19cm). In publisher's tan paper wraps, printed in black; [ii], [i]-viii, [5]-773, [5]pp; one-page publisher's ad at front, 4pp at rear, and ads to verso of front cover, recto and verso of rear cover. A sound copy, rubbed, cover with general moderate wear and soiling, rear wrapper detached but present, minor losses to front lower corner, head, and tail, internally lightly browned: Very Good. A late issue of the first English translation, in scarce original paper wrappers. The setting appears to be identical to the first printing, with the Crowell imprint on the title page, but this copy lacks the Rand Avery imprint on the copyright page. Translations of Tolstoy's other works listed in the ads date the issue to at least 1889. The publisher's address on the ads and wrappers (46 E. 14th St) dates it even later, to between 1893 and 1900. However, we find no auction records for any other copy in paper wraps. LINE, ETTLINGER & GLADSTONE Tolstoi 39.