First edition, first printing. Published by Grove Press, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-8021-5794-2. Translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov. Illustrated by Valentin Popov with 22 full-page black-and-white illustrations derived from Popov's acclaimed etching series, originally created 1983-1988 under a grant from the Academy of Fine Art of the USSR and awarded the Academy's Silver Medal. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt spine lettering, in original slipcase. No dust jacket as issued.

This copy remains in the original publisher's shrink wrap, unopened and unread.

Turgenev's The Torrents of Spring (1872) is one of his finest novellas, following a young Russian landowner who falls in love in Frankfurt — a work widely regarded as among his most autobiographical and elegantly crafted.

Shrink wrap intact with minor surface wrinkling. Boards and slipcase appear fine beneath the wrap. An as-new sealed copy.