Paris

First posthumous edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Raised-band spine decorated with 5 fleurons. Initials G. B. at tail. Some rubbing. Fresh overall. Good copy.
The posthumous collection, Turgenev having died in 1883, comprises 4 unpublished stories: Monsieur François, The Song of Triumphant Love (with a dedication to Gustave Flaubert), After Death (Clara Militch), A Fire at Sea; it opens with a chapter on Turgenev's life and work by Viscount E-M de Vogué, and concludes with Renan's speech delivered at the author's grave. The last story in the collection, A Fire at Sea, was dictated to Pauline Viardot by an ailing Turgenev shortly before his death.

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Initials G. B. at foot. Light rubbing. Good copy, very fresh.
Collection composed of 2 stories: La caille and Mémoires d'un nihiliste, 2 collections of short stories: Souvenirs d'enfance and 30 petits poèmes en prose (short stories in the manner of Baudelaire's petits poèmes en prose), and a play: Trop menu, le fil cassé.

First edition of the French translation of which there were no deluxe copies.
Rebound in full Bradel binding in floral-patterned paper, smooth spine, light rubbing to headcaps, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine creased, some foxing to boards, handsome interior condition.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri Bosco to his friends Georges and Alice Raillard: "... leur vieil et fidèle ami..." ["... their old and faithful friend..."]

First edition.
Iconography.
Spine and boards with some staining, handsome interior condition.

First edition of the French translation, one of 16 numbered copies on pure laid paper, deluxe edition.
A handsome and rare copy with full margins.