NMLP P-012424 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
The Gentleman from San Francisco (Господин из Сан-Франциско / Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko)
Ivan Bunin (Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin) · Knigoizdatel'stvo pisatelei v Moskve (Book Publishers' Association of Writers in Moscow) — Moscow · 1916 (first stand-alone book collection; text first printed 1915 in the Slovo anthology)
No mass-market book-club edition exists for the Russian original — this is a scarce late-Imperial Moscow imprint, so the trap is not a book club but modern reprints and print-on-demand facsimiles ("Russian Edition"/Nabu-type reprints of the 1916 collection) mistaken for the original; a genuine 1916 copy is letterpress-printed on period paper in fragile printed wrappers bearing the Knigoizdatel'stvo pisatelei v Moskve imprint. For the 1922 Hogarth first English edition, the key first-issue point is the tipped-in errata slip stating that owing to a mistake Mr. Lawrence's name was omitted from the title page (his name is absent from the title page of the true first); it was issued in patterned paper boards with printed white paper labels to spine and front cover, in a run of about 1,000 copies. Later Hogarth impressions/reissues and the 1923 American (Thomas Seltzer) edition are not the first English edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-012424 for "The Gentleman from San Francisco (Господин из Сан-Франциско / Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko)" by Ivan Bunin (Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012424, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).