3 Ivan Turgenev first editions are documented on this shelf, from A Sportsman's Sketches (Sketches from a Hunter's Album) (1852) to Fathers and Sons (Ottsy i deti) (1862) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Ivan Turgenev title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- A Sportsman's Sketches (Sketches from a Hunter's Album) — 1852 · University Printing HouseTrue first is the Russian first book edition, 'Zapiski okhotnika,' two volumes, printed at the University Printing House (Universitetskaya Tipografiya), Moscow, 1852. It collects the hunting sketches first serialized in the journal 'Sovremennik' (The Contemporary) from 1847 to 1851, beginning with 'Khor and Kalinych' (January 1847). English-language appearances such as 'A Sportsman's Sketches' are later…. True first equals the 1852 Russian first edition in two volumes. The most collectible English appearance is Constance Garnett's two-volume Heinemann translation (1895), itself a 'first thus' in English. All English-language printings are translations and therefore 'first thus'; do not conflate any English edition with the 1852 Russian true first.
- Fathers and Sons — 1862 · Tip. V. GrachiovaThe text first appeared in print in Russkiy Vestnik (The Russian Herald), Moscow, February 1862; the first separate edition followed the same year from the press of V. Grachiova (V. Grachev & Co.), Moscow, 1862, 304 pages. The book text is not the magazine text: for the separate edition Turgenev added the dedication to the critic Belinsky and revised passages of Bazarov's characterisation, so the Belinsky…. Russian is the true first: Moscow, 1862 (Grachev), preceded in print by the Russkiy Vestnik serial of February 1862. For English-language collectors the first is American — Leypoldt & Holt, New York, 1867 (Schuyler) — and it precedes the first British edition, which dealer bibliographies place at 1883; both the Moscow 1862 and the New York 1867 are collected. Turgenev's own French translation made with Louis…. No book-club issue is documented for either the 1862 Moscow or the 1867 New York edition. The recurring traps are 'first thus' reprints of the Schuyler text and the later English translations — Constance Garnett's of the 1890s, and the Modern Library, Everyman and Limited Editions Club issues — which are routinely offered as 'first editions' of the title. Soviet-era and modern Russian reprints of Otsy i deti are….
- Fathers and Sons (Ottsy i deti) — 1862 · Tipografiya V. GrachovaFirst appearance: serially in Russkii Vestnik (The Russian Herald), Moscow, March 1862. First separate book edition: Moscow, tip. V. Grachiova (V. Grachov's press), 1862, 304 pp., octavo (approx. 24 x 17 cm). The decisive textual point separating the book from the serial is the dedication to Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), Turgenev's late mentor, which is present in the separate edition and absent from the…. CENSUS REFINED. The census names 'Russkii Vestnik, Moscow' as the true-first publisher; that is the journal of first serial appearance (March 1862), not the publisher of the first book. The first edition in book form is Moscow, tip. V. Grachiova, 1862 — both the serial and the separate edition are 1862, so the year stands, but the imprint does not. The census's headline claim is CONFIRMED: the first…. No book-club issue is documented for the 1862 Moscow first or the 1867 New York first-in-English. The reprint tells are on the English side: the 1883 reissue of the Schuyler translation, and the long line of later translations — Garnett 1895 ('Fathers and Children'), Hapgood (New York: Scribner's, 1903), Hogarth (London: Dent, 1921) — each of which is a 'first thus' for its own translation only and is regularly….
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