Author: TURGENEV, IVAN
Title: First Love and Other Tales (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather. Eight short stories by the prominent Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) are presented in a deluxe, leatherbound Franklin Library edition. Includes a drawn portrait of Turgenev by Mal Luber and illustrations by Joseph Isom. Translated by David Magarshack. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is laid in. --- Bound in rich full maroon bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright and crisp though with faint scratches to textblock fore-edge gilding, otherwise lacking noticeable damages or evidence of having been read. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); [10], 388 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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