Russian And Soviet Literature from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 237 pages, with index. Combined biographical and critical study. 8vo, flecked beige paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering and decoration, a bit of wear at the heel, fore-edge rough-cut, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with little wear. Extensive notes in pencil by former… Read more about this item

Caxton House, Inc., 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 248 pages, with one-page introductory note by Arthur Zeiger, Chronological Table of the life and works of Chekhov. Nine plays, including the major ones - The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering and decoration, spine and boards around edges sunned, some foxing… Read more about this item

Stanford Univ Press, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 369 pages, with index. 1978 printing of 1975 second edition of work first issued 1958. A book of the Soviet period, it looks at the pre-history of "Marxist-Leninist" notions of art, starting with the "radical democrat" writers of the 19th century. Ends with consideration of Soviet-era dissidents -… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1965. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 303 pages. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Guy Daniels. Includes Biographical Note and "A Few Technicalities" concerning Russian names, the translator's approach to rhymed poetry, etc. Frontispiece portrait of Lermontov. The collection does NOT include A Hero of Our Time; it DOES include the long poems The Tambov Treasurer's… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 185 pages, with Introduction by translator Paul Foote. Lermontov's famous novel, set in the Caucasus Mountains. Mass-market paperback with shelf wear, crease to spine, cocked, light soil to wraps. diagonal creases to front, edges/page margins age-tanned, spots of foxing to fore-edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff throughout. … Read more about this item

Harper Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 387 pages. A new translation by Paul Schmidt, an actor and playwright who strove for his American English translation to retain the grace and subtlety of Chekhov's Russian. He provides a short introduction, and notes after each play. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, dust soil/foxing to top edge, some stains… Read more about this item

Grove Press, Inc., 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 107 pages. First printing. Translated and with an Introduction by Anselm Hollo. Poems by one of the two leading poets (with Yevgeni Yevtushenko) of the Soviet cultural "thaw" beginning in the late 1950s. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, corners sharp, light dust soil to top… Read more about this item

Random House, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 357 pages. Translated from the Russian, with a preface and notes, by Andrew Field. Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons. The "realist/symbolist" novel was first published in 1907. 8vo, brown paper over boards with black cloth quarter, red and faded gilt lettering and decoration, red topstain, slight wear to corners, cocked,… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 395 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The third volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume study of Dostoevsky's life and work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with teal cloth quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, very slightly cocked, light dust soil to… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/Good. 320 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The second volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume literary history of Dostoevsky's work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with black quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, two smudges to boards, light dust soil to top edge, faint… Read more about this item

Stanford University Press, 1978. No Binding. Good. 35 pages plus 5 more of notes. Unbound offprint of chapter from Literature and Society in Imperial Russia, 1800-1914 (ed. Wiliam Mills Todd III). 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" pages stapled at upper left, light vertical crease to the whole, outer pages and edges age-toned with a few spots of foxing, not strongly… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 286 pages. Published in The World's Classics series. Introduction by P.N. Furbank. The selection of short stories includes four from Tolstoy's early "Crimea" period and five from after 1880. Mass-market paperback, reading crease and another vertical crease to front cover, light shelf wear, sticker remnant on back, foxing to top… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 309 pages. Translated with an Introduction by David Magarshack and an Essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson. The Intro is 34 pages long; Wilson's "Turgenev and the Life-Giving Drop" is 61 pages. 8vo, teal cloth sunned to brown on spine and along edges of boards, with silver… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 1978. Soft cover. Good. 245 pages, with bibliography (source list). First paperback edition of biography published 1977. Eight pages of b&w portraits and photos of Turgenev's homes. Trade paperback, wraps age-toned, creases to corners and spine, a bit curled, foxing to top edge, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Names of former owners written on ffep,… Read more about this item

Grove Press, 1955. Soft cover. Good. 305 pages, with pronunciation guide to names of the characters in the novel. E-27 - an early book in Grove's Evergreen Books series. In Turgenev's last novel, published 1877, the protagonists are Russian revolutionary populists. Trade paperback, creases to spine and corners, shelf wear, rubbing along spine, front cover slightly separated but… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 192 pages. Translated with a Preface and Notes by David Magarshack, with an essay on Translating Shakespeare translated by Manya Harari. The Notes provide brief biographical information on persons, chiefly artists and writers, mentioned in the text. Illustrated with b&w photos and artwork (by Leonid Pasternak) on plates,… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 490 pages plus 21 of front matter, with index. Selected and edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, who wrote a Foreword. Translated by Lynn Solotaroff, Bernard Guilbert Guerney and the editor. Explanatory same-page footnotes throughout. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with black cloth quarter, silver lettering on spine,… Read more about this item

Capricorn Books (G.B. Putnam), 1960. Soft cover. Good. 257 pages. Selected, edited, and translated by George Reavey with an essay on the life and writings of Pasternak. Reavey knew Pasternak for 30 years. His essay, "Boris Pasternak: The Man, the Poet and the Theorist of Beauty", comprises the first 100 pages of this edition. Also included is Pasternak's… Read more about this item

The Modern LIbrary, 1931. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 950 pages. Date of printing not stated, but indicated as 1931 by list of ML titles at the back of the book. Constance Garnett's translation of Tolstoy's classic novel (1878) first appeared in 1901. 4-1/2" x 6-5/8", green cloth over flexible boards, gilt ML logo on front and lettering on spine,… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 92 pages, with Introduction by the translators and Notes on the Poems that help with the pronunciation of place names and give a date for each poem and context for some. First Penguin edition of this collection of 22 poems by the Russian poet, written in the 1950s. Included are his… Read more about this item