Signed Leo Tolstoy??

>>9508321
self-bump. I'm poor halp

>>9508321
If authentic it could sell in the mid teens. Resurrection isn't his most well known book but signed first editions are a good bet. First print would be better though. Another problem, even if authentic, would be if the note is personalized. If so that greatly decreases the value to most collectors.

t. owner of a handful of 100K+ books

I struggle to believe that's real

>>9508376
the note doesn't seem to be personal. It's about the copyright.

>>9508380
Seems legit to me, I can't be sure though.

A nearly identical message and signature is selling here for 125 quid. http://www.kogan-communications.co.uk/ecb/page2.html

(Ctrl f tolstoy)

>>9508390
I would think it'd be more valuable.

>>9508390
If it were proven legit I'd pay more than that.a

>>9508408
whats a rough estimate?

>>9508321
It's worth $0 until you've invested some money by paying a historian/appraiser to confirm that that is Tolstoy's John Hancock and not some forgery.

>>9508400

It comes with an authenticity cert. From the seller noted above.

My guess is, with some research, you can probably find several such inscribed and signed editions, and even an explanation of it.

Cool find though

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>Written in English, a language Tolstoy wasn't fluent in.
>Handwriting looks nothing like his signature
>Signature is also penned in English

You are beyond help if you even thought for a moment that it could be real.

>>9508562

Thats his Cyrillic signature dude...

>>9508636
lmao

>>9508562
>Leo Tolstoy could speak fifteen foreign languages – to varying degrees. He would have learned French as a first language, being an aristocrat in 19th century Russia, but he also learned to speak and read English, German, Italian and Polish. At Kazan University, where he was miserable and indeed left before completing his studies, he studied Turkish and Arabic, and at the age of 50 he took up Hebrew and Ancient Greek so that he could read the Bible.

>>9508965
>at the age of 50 he took up Hebrew and Ancient Greek so that he could read the Bible
Damn, he fell hard for the
>translations
meme.

>>9508321
I'm just amazed the ink is still eligible

>>9509962
Nigger I've got a book signed by some faggot in 1750 and the ink's clearly legible.

>>9508562
He read Dickens in English. He was certainly fluent in it.

>>9508965
>Not learning spanish
What a pleb

>>9508376
Would you care to share some of your cherished material?

>>9510279
I'm on a business trip right now but my most prized possession is a signed copy of the Sun also Rises.

>>9508321
Shouldn't the signature be in Russian?

>>9510147
that just confirms he's patrician lmao

>learning the least important romance language

kek @ u

>>9510335
You weren't living in siglo de oro, pleb.

>>9510335
t.american pissed about his mexican neighbours

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It seems authentic.

I had it appraised a while ago. I lost the slip, I think it was around 9,000. The expert said it was real

>>9510335
>learning Polish before Spanish

>>9510013
>I've got a book signed by some faggot in 1750

lol

>>9511560
do you want me to post pics

because i'm lazy and not gonna do that

It's got this picture of some dude in a funny hat too.

>>9511509
So why are you asking us, dumb faggot

>>9511569

No, I am not doubting you. I just found your way of talking funny. Calling a person from 1750 a faggot was hilarious for me for some reason.

>>9508321
I'm actually interested desu
If you get this confirmed I'd seriously buy it. Resurrection is my fav tolstoy work

>>9510302
post em when you get back, please?

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>>9512635
>OP expects thousand of dollars

>>9511597
it was in like 1998

>>9512809
I piss in waterbottle and jerk of to anime girls with penises.
Get it appraised again, most of the people on this website weren't born in 1998

>>9513154
yessir