TOLSTOY, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910). Anna Karenina. Nathan Haskell Dole, translator. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886.
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TOLSTOY, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910). Anna Karenina. Nathan Haskell Dole, translator. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886.
8vo. 1p. advertisements at front, 4p. publisher's advertisements at end. (Evidence of book label removal at foot of pastedown.) Original blue cloth, gilt-stamped on spine and upper cover, floral endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, front hinge starting). Provenance: Gift inscription on front flyleaf dated 1888.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, EARLY PRINTING with Anna Karenina listed first on the advertisement leaf at front. Tolstoy's work was first published in book form in Moscow in 1878. The present edition was issued in blonde, brown, blue and green cloth, with no established priority.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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