H sutherland edwards translator (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Undated, circa late 1960's, good tight copy, light age spotting to bottom page edges. Avigdor Arikha (illustrator).

Rare. The princesses were Varvara Orbebiani and Anna Chavchavadzey and their families and followers. Members of the Georgian royal family, they had occupied distinguished positions at the Russian court as ladies of honour to the Empress. They were released after payment of a large ransom and the return of the legendary warrior Shamil's son who many years previously had been given up to the Russians as a hostage. First English edition, 8vo, xv, 344 pp., engraved portrait (lightly spotted, tiny water stain to lower blank outer margin), plan of seraglio and folding map, contemporary dark blue polished half calf gilt extra, tan morocco label, marbled edges, a fine copy. Provenance: Robert Hayhurst (bookplate). Hayhurst's books were notable for their generally fine condition.…

First thus. First printing of this translation. viii, 308 pp. Bound in recent navy cloth with leather backstrip, ruled and lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Fine binding. Contents Very Good+ with a few tiny stains to fore edge and reading smudges. A rare early English translation of Dostoyevsky's novel The House of the Dead, translated from the French of Charles Neyroud.…