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Rare First Edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyitch
TOLSTOI, COUNT LYOF N. [LEO TOLSTOY].
Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1887.
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.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 139452
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First edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts
TOLSTOY, LYOF [LEO].
The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts.
London: William Heinemann 1891.
First edition in English of Tolstoy’s satirical play. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by E. J. Dillon. Introduction by Arthur W. Penero. In fine condition. An exceptional example of this rare work.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135733
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First Edition of Leo Tolstoy's What is Art?
TOLSTOY, LEO.
What Is Art?
London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company 1898.
First edition of this work by the Russian master. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Tolstoy. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the half-title page. Translated by A. Maude.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133803
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Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Inscribed by Him to His Doctor
TOLSTOY, LEO.
Sochinenia Grafa L.N. Tolstogo [Childhood, Boyhood, Youth].
Moscow: Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko 1893.
Early Russian printing of Tolstoy’s trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Quarto, original half leather. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his doctor, “To Dmitry Vasil’evich Nikitin. Leo Tolstoy. 28 March 1903.” With an original photograph of Tolstoy with Dmitry Nikitin opposite the title page. The recipient, Dmitry Nikitin was Tolstoy’s family doctor who described him as ‘‘a very attentive person [who] knows everything that medicine knows now.” The son of a priest from a small village, served as Tolstoy’s first family and later treated M. Gorky. Beginning in the 1850s, Tolstoy had to turn to doctors for both his own illnesses and the illnesses of his children, yet he believed that traditional medicine did not solve the essence of the problem, a problem with the person themselves, and their soul. He preferred to rely on the spiritual and natural defenses of the body and tried to dispense with traditional medicine. In 1902, Tolstoy fell seriously ill with pneumonia. With his life in danger, he needed vigilant medical supervision and a permanent doctor. Nikitin came highly recommended and quickly became involved with the Tolstoy family. They characterized him in letters to friends as a nice, pleasant person, and competent doctor. Nikitin, thanks to Tolstoy, soon connected with several other famous writers including Gorky, A. Chekhov, S. Elpatievsky, S. Petrov, F. Shalyapin, and L. Andreev. In addition to serving as the Tolstoy family’s doctor, Nikitin served as a secretary, copied Tolstoy’s manuscripts, and taught his children. When Nikitin came to inspect the writer on his deathbed in 1910, Tolstoy addressed him with these words, ‘‘I want to give you some good advice. Do not remove yourself from people to serve them. There is no need to study bacteria, to study infinitesimal quantities… All this for the sake of vanity. Do not leave people.” In near fine condition. Inscribed examples of Tolstoy’s works are of utmost scarcity, association copies of this caliber even more so.
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 133583
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First English edition of Leo Tolstoy's The Great Iniquity
TOLSTOY, LEO. TRANSLATED BY V. TCHERTKOFF AND I. F. MAYO.
A Great Iniquity.
London: The Free Age Press n.d.
First English edition of Tolstoy’s work on peasant welfare in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135472
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Rare first edition of Christian Martyrdom in Russia
TOLSTOY, LEO. VLADIMIR TCHERTKOFF.
Christian Martyrdom in Russia: Persecution of the Spirit-Wrestlers (or Doukhobortsi) in the Caucus.
London: The Brotherhood Publishing Co 1897.
First edition of Tchertkoff’s work on the persecution of the Doukhobors. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135138
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Rare edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You
TOLSTOI, COUNT LEO. [TOLSTOY].
The Kingdom of God is Within You: Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-Conception.
London: Walter Scott, Ltd. 1894.
First edition in English of the culmination of 30 years of Tolstoy’s thinking which lays out a new organization for society based on an interpretation of Christianity focusing on universal love. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Translated from the original Russian by A. Delano. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 124089
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, VLADIMIR. [LEO TOLSTOY].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann 1922.
First edition of Chertkov’s illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy’s personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949