Tolstoy Leo Count Lyof Tolstoi (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: G++. Penny Popular Novel 43 .c1900. 64 pages.

Large Pictorial Paperback. Condition: G++. J. Menzies (cover) (illustrator). c1910. Large format sixpenny paperback with pictorial cover. "Continental Author Series". Lacks one inch base of spine removing T of THE of title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tolstoi, Count Lyof N. Life / authorised translation by Isabel F. Hapgood. London: Walter Scott, 1889. Hardback, Good. Blue cloth, bumped to corners, rubbed to edges with many small marks and blemishes to boards and slight evidence of old damp to the rear corners. Gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Binding firm but starting to crack along the inner gutters. Light foxing to endpapers. Pencilled ownership signature to ffep. Brown stain to title page and the following page. 295pp. + publisher advertisements. Some pencil underlining in the introduction, otherwise contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. c1890. Small green privately bound hardback lettered in gold on spine with title and (at base) D.B. LOW. 208 pages. Clean and tight but first and last few leaves bit browned.

Octavo hardcover (VG) minor cracking to gutters; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Cover faintly stained; extremities slightly worn; board of front cover dented, visible as crack on front pastedown endpaper; pages slightly edge-browned; a couple of signatures slightly pulled; a good copy (no dust jacket). ]. 238p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition in English. No date. Circa 1889. ***First impression of the first UK edition in English. A new and authorised translation from the unabridged Russian manuscript. The first edition in English of "What To Do?" was first published by Crowell, New York in 1887. ***Please note that this is an n ex-library copy. A good copy in royal blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative rules and design to the spine and front board. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Very small bump to outer edge of front board. Corners of boards rubbed and slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed and creased and slightly bumped. Splash marks to fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block. Library classification numbers handwritten in blue fountain pen ink to the top of front free endpaper. Owner's name in fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper. Library pocket to the bottom of the rear pastedown. No other library classification marks or stamps. No foxing. Water splash mark to bottom corner of rear free endpaper not affecting interior pages. Spine tight. ***192mm x 126mm. 244 pages plus eight-page publishers' titles at the back of the book. ***'Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi (9 Sep 1828 - 20 Nov 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy's notable works include the novels "War and Peace" (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth" (1852-1856), and "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. His fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886), "Family Happiness" (1859), "After the Ball" (1911), and "Hadji Murad" (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. "What to Do" - Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow" was first published in Russian in 1887.' [Wiki] ***A nice, albeit ex-library copy of the very uncommon first UK edition of Tolstoy's "What to Do?". ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Spine slightly bumped.; 8vo; 283 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover with some light wear to the corners and edges of the covers. Although the title page indicates that this was published in a series of his works, there is no volume number on the book. #.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . 1st US edition. Bookplate inside. Front hinge cracked. (pilgrimage).

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.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First separate American edition. Tan stapled wrappers with black lettering on front cover. 5"x7" inches. 16pp. This is a sequel to the original Kreutzer Sonata, originally published in 1889. An absolutely pristine copy. The publication of The Kreutzer Sonata set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters that were then called the "sexual question" and the "woman problem." These debates stirred widespread condemnation from all sides, as well as fervent admiration. The Kreutzer Sonata was censored or forbidden in some countries as "indecent literature." In this sequel, Tolstoy repeatedly makes reference to verses from the Gospels as evidence supporting his views.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American edition. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Contemporary pencil owner name and note, topedge soiled, binding slightly cocked, covers with spotting and tidelines, good only but internally clean. Tales mostly representative of Tolstoy's literary activity between 1852 and 1859.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket. Green and black covers with design centered with an eagle. Wrinkling, wear and fading noted to spine. Discolorations noted to covers. Ffep is detached from book but present. Spine cracked to front and back. Spine loose. Pages are very brown with age and delicate, but they are clean and very readable. Page 169 with bent corners. Anna Karenina is a Russian novel considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. "Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Doyle" White decorative covers are now grey with age. Paper covering on boards is ripping on spine and is ripped halfway down top end. Some small rips on page edges. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's name and date of 1903 on first free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering stamped direct on upper board and spine, gilt detail on upper board; pp. [10], 273, [4] (ads). Boards rubbed; corners and spine tips beginning to fray; library stamps on front paste-down; overall VG+ in custom mylar jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First separate U.S. edition. Fine in stapled printed tan wraps. Small octavo (5" by 7 1/4") 16 pages. A sequel (or epilogue) to Tolstoy's novella, Kreutzer Sonata (named after Beethoven's sonata), which was censored in Russia and banned in the U.S. In this epilogue Tolstoy clarifies the intended message of the novella that argued for the ideal of sexual abstinence and offers a first-person description of jealous rage.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The Minerva Publishing Co. New York, Copyright, 1893. First Edition Thus. Scarce U. S. paperback edition. Contains: Two Generations by Tolstoy(78 p.); The Worldling(16 p.) and A Rich Marriage(13 p.) by Malot: The Nest of Nobles(26 p.) by Turgenief; The Man of the South(18 p.) by Daudet. Ads at front and back for "Beecham's Pills," "Scott's Emulsion," etc. Missing covers. Chips and tears to front and back pages. General age-toning and minor foxing. Good-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition thus. First edition of these two collections to be issued bound together by Crowell in 1889 (both were originally issued separately in 1887). Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Romanov coat of arms on the front board. 343, viii, 349 pp. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Head of spine slightly chipped, some minor wear to boards, small stamp to first blank page, abrasion to top edge affecting approximately pp. 27-120, but overall clean and tight. See Line, p. 32, no. 12.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1886 edition. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.

[NONE] [circa 1897]. (hardcover) Fine. 769+. 8vo. Contemporary rebind. Soft, deep-burgundy leather, gilt title to spine. Burgundy ribbon marker. First published in 1878, considered to be one of the greatest works of literature. Frontispiece. Gilt top edge. 10 illutrations by Paul Frenzeny. Lightly age-toned as may be anticipated, with only a small amount of foxing to the half title page. There is a name penned (small) to the halftitle page; otherwise fine. Excellent copy of this classic work.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. This is an uncommon, early paperback copy of "THE KREUTZER SONATA" by Count Lyof Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy). 1890 early American edition; The Pollard Publishing Company; New York. Softcover with the original paper wraps intact. Complete and Unabridged. Translated from the original manuscript by Frederic Lyster. Included in this edition is a Preface by Tolstoy "giving his reasons why this book was written." From a review: "The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the 'animal excesses' and 'swinish connection' governing the relation between the sexes." Condition: There are bits of paper missing at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tears at the bottom and outer cover edges. The bottom-left back cover corner has chipped away. There are a few tiny, light stains on the front cover. Both covers are securely attached. Small tear at the bottom edge of the title page. Nice text pages - clean with only tanning to the last page (118) and the facing advertisement page. Overall the book is in Good- condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First American Edition. Very Good Hardcover, first American edition translated by Nathan Haskell Dole 349 pages plus several pages of ads in the back.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1887. Hardcover. Early United States edition, previously published in the same year as separate volumes. Bound in blue buckram with gilt lettering on front and spine. Rubbing at corners and spine ends, scratch on front. Very Good.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Early edition. 773pp. Navy cloth, gilt titles on spine and front board, gilt imperial eagle on front board. Slight, intermittent fading along crease where spine meets front board. Corners solid, spine straight, binding secure. Wear to foot of spine, with slight split to the cloth there, but no additional fraying. Strong hinges and clean, unmarked pages. Lacks the floral patterned endpapers, Astor Place address on title page and advertisements in rear that mark a first printing of this edition. Still an uncommon, early printing from the year of publication. Tolstoy's towering achievement, as it was first encountered by readers in English. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Vladimir Nabokov held that Anna Karenina was, "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition (?). Octavo, 773pp., plus [4]pp. of ads at rear. Early (but not first) printing. Good only, with wear to the corners and wspine ends, rubbing and old dampstains to the boards, spine cocked, and the front inner hinge thinly cracked, but holding. A front blank possibly removed (?). Else clean, sound, and unmarked. A notoriously difficult book to pin down, given the profusion of variant copies, although many of those details described as "issue points" or "states" to the first edition are not really either of these; the first printing apparently contains advertisements at the rear without any Russian titles advertised, and this seems to be the primary indicator of a first printing, which ours is not. Our copy in brown cloth, with the page block bulking to 35mm, and with white endpapers printed in green with floral and bird pattern. Crowell device to title page, ten titles listed on opposite leaf (notably absent is "War and Peace," not published until 1889), and with the publisher's address at 13 Astor Place. Advertisements at rear are in several sections, the first of which is an entire page devoted to Tolstoy, though, again, "War and Peace" is absent. Presumably an early reprint, printed no later than 1888. Any further details can be provided upon request.

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.

First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole with a preface by him. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. A very sharp example. Leo Tolstoy is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In 'The Kreutzer Sonata' he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in 'The Devil' a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. The book is in very good condition with some light rubbing to the boards. The spine has been rebacked. There are NO marks or bookplates in the book. A very good copy of this First Edition in English published 1886.