The Elaghin Affair and Other Stories by Ivan Bunin - 1935

Knopf, 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1935. 1935 Bunin, Ivan THE ELAGHIN AFFAIR AND OTHER STORIES NY: Minerva Press, c1935 First paperbound edition published in 1968 296pp, Selected and Translated from the Original Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, notes, 8vo, Slightly stained and bent cover, Text clear, Fine trade paperback,

New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. 297 pp. Book is used with fading to boards and a small stain interior on two pages. Two orange remainder marks on top page edges. Pages are well bound and free from any apparent marks. Dust jacket is faded with wear to edges, creases and an accumulation of small tears around the edges. This translation is done by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. "Bunin is a figure unique in Russian literature . .. he strikes one, almost irresistibly, as a French Academician-and one learns that, in the old Russia, he was 'one of the Twelve Honorary Academicians, who correspond to the French Immortals.'.. He is a greater cosmopolite than even Turgeniev was. He is, indubitably, a Russian stylist. He can write impeccably, in a style chill, hard, brilliant, like rock-crystal, best described in his own phrase, in The Cicadas poem in prose: wondrous blossoms, that seem to grow in crystal spirals.' He wanted, we are told, to be a painter; and he is a painter, even in… Read More

New York : Knopf, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Stated First edition. Translated from the Russian. Orange cloth with spine titles and decoration in black. Frontis photo of Bunin. Previous owner's ink name on front endpaper, otherwise clean copy. Front hinge shows a light crack but binding tight.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Orange cloth. Light cover wear/soil, spine sunned, notes in pencil on back flyleaf, o/w VG/ no dj. small 8vo. black & white frontis illus. 1st Edition. Selected & translated from the original Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth, red topstain. Stated first edition. Very slight wear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, rubbed, mildly edgeworn with interior tape repair to spine head and point. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece. Translated by Bernard Gilbert Guerney. Nobel Prize winning Russian emigre. Unmarked and in a Brodart cover. An attractive copy in a jacket seldom this fine. Price clipped.

NY: KNOPF.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in price-clipped otherwise very good+ or better dust jacket (A few faint spots of shelf-soiling on pale blue variant cloth covers. Couple small chips at crest of spine on jacket. Short edge tears & mild shelf-wear to jacket. ) .