Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1978|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
La Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper. Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. Handsome copy complete with its acetate cover, dust jacket and slipcase.
J. Hetzel et Cie|Paris 1883 (S.d.)|11 x 18 cm|relié
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 The posthumous collection, Turgenev having died in 1883, comprises 4 unpublished stories: Monsieur François, The Song of Triumphant Love (with a dedication to Gustave Flaubert), After Death (Clara Militch), A Fire at Sea; it opens with a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.
P. J. Hetzel et cie|Paris 1875 (S.d)|11 x 18 cm|relié
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.