Apr 24, 2008 - Sale 2143

Sale 2143 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
TURGENEF, IVAN SERGHEÏEVITCH. Fathers and Sons. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. 12mo, original gilt-stamped green cloth; contemporary owner's signatures and a later bookplate on front pastedown. New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1867

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first edition of the first turgenev novel translated into english. First published in Moscow in 1861. With its prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight, it is considered one of the first great works of modern Russian literature. It strongly influenced Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and, as the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, was championed by Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James. CBEL III, 155.