THE POSSESSED Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Granta Books, 2012. 9781847083142. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 298 (no inscriptions). More
Granta Books, 2012. 9781847083142. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 298 (no inscriptions). More
London: Magpie, 2022. 9780861544691. 1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 308 (no inscriptions). More
Citron Press, 1998. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 232 (no inscriptions). More
Paris: H. Nicolle [&] Le Normant, 1811-1812. 8 vols. 16mo (5¼ x 3¼ ins). Contemporary half calf on marbled-paper laid boards, spines gilt ruled in six compartments with gilt lettered labels, red sprinkled edges (edges scuffed and rubbed - otherwise a VG set). Pp. various (vol VII lacks front prelims..... More
New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. 0312063512. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Orginal gilt lettered dark red cloth (small mark on fore-edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 250 (no other inscriptions). More
Picador, 2021. 9781529074802. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 233 (no inscriptions). More
Fourth Estate, 2020. 9780008332884. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 263 (no inscriptions). More
Gerald Duckworth, 1997. 9780715628027. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (tiny nick at top corner of upper cover - otherwise near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 192 (no inscriptions). More
Istros Books, 2016. 9781908236289. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 130, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
Folio Society, 2002. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue decorated cloth, slipcase (Fine/Fine). Pp. 254, illus with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions), More
Book Society [&] Secker and Warburg, 1956. Book club edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth, top edge red (page edges and endpapers rather spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 282 (bookplate on front free endpaper). More
Edward Arnold, 1967. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xxiv + 145 (no inscriptions). More
Ernest Benn, 1949. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (page edges spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spotted and chipped - in protective covers, price clipped). Pp. xl + 471 [&] viii + 519 (endpapers rather spotted; no inscriptions). More
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Myrmidon, 2022. 9781910183298. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered turquoise cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 313 (no inscriptions). More
Fourth Estate, 2005. 0753174618. 1st edn 1st printing 8vo. Original gilt lettered purple cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 265 (no inscriptions). More
Faber and Faber, 2014. 9780571246380. 1st edn 1st printing. Original silver lettered black cloth-backed pictorial paper-laid boards, no dustwrapper. Pp. xxii + 121, illus with b&w plate (no inscriptions). More
William Heinemann, 1991. 9780434055579. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered orange cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 184 (no inscriptions; pages tanned). More
Paris: L'Édition D'Art, c. 1925. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blind-stamped calf, top edge gilt with decorative endpapers and printed paper covers bound-in (worn and faded at edges). Pp. x + 222 ( no inscriptions). [French text]. More
William Heinemann, 1938. 8vo. Original gilt decorated puprle cloth (spine faded and edges of boards discoloured). Pp. vii + 197 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with a neat 1943 inscription to her on front endpaper). More
New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1969. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge red (small indentation on top edge of upper board - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (small tears and wear at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 624, illus with b&w frontispiece (top corner of front..... More
William Heinemann, 1928. Limited edn (780). 8vo. Original purple cloth with paper spine label (boards heavily faded). Pp. 353 (no inscriptions). More
Folio Society, 1966. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, top edge red (VG), no slipcase. Pp. 228, illus with coloured plates (no inscriptions). More
Secker & Warburg, 1963. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered tan cloth (casing with slight lean; page edges a little spotted), dustwrapper (spine and lower cover tanned - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 251 (endpapers and prelims tanned/spotted; no inscriptions). More
Serpent's Tail, 2023. 9781800814752. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 181 (no inscriptions). More
Collins, 1953. 1st edn 2nd imp signed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original decorated black cloth, top edge black (VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 192 with b&w illus in text by John Verney (no other inscriptions). More