Verlag: Walter Scott, 1888
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. No edition. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. The boards are edge worn, cocked, a bit chipped and marked. Previous ownership inscription, tanning, age related marks. However, it is still in fair condition considering age, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: Walter Scott [&] Heinemann [&] Brotherhood Publishing, c. 1891-1895, 1895
Anbieter: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Vereinigtes Königreich
17 vols in 20. 8vo (7½ x 5 ins). Rebound in contemporary uniform white buckram cloth, gilt lettered calf labels, top edges gilt, floral patterned endpapers (boards and spines lightly marked - otherwise a VG set. Pp. various (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs; no inscriptions). Childhood Boyhood Youth (n.d.), The Cossacks A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852 (n.d.), The Fruits of Enlightenment a Comedy in Four Acts (Heinemann 1891), The Invaders and Other Stories (1889), Ivan Ilyitch (n.d.), The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), The Kreutzer Sonata (n.d.), Life (n.d.), The Long Exile (n.d.), My Confession (n.d.), My Religion (n.d.), The Physiology of War Napoleon and the Russian Campaign and Power and Liberty (n.d.), A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories (n.d.), Sevastopol (n.d.), War and Peace (4 vols. n.d.), What to Do? (n.d.), Work While Ye Have the Light (Brotherhood Publishing 1895).
Verlag: T. Y. Crowell & Co [n.d., but ca 1893], New York, 1893
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition. A later issue of the first English-language edition. Octavo (19cm). In publisher's tan paper wraps, printed in black; [ii], [i]-viii, [5]-773, [5]pp; one-page publisher's ad at front, 4pp at rear, and ads to verso of front cover, recto and verso of rear cover. A sound copy, rubbed, cover with general moderate wear and soiling, rear wrapper detached but present, minor losses to front lower corner, head, and tail, internally lightly browned: Very Good. A late issue of the first English translation, in scarce original paper wrappers. The setting appears to be identical to the first printing, with the Crowell imprint on the title page, but this copy lacks the Rand Avery imprint on the copyright page. Translations of Tolstoy's other works listed in the ads date the issue to at least 1889. The publisher's address on the ads and wrappers (46 E. 14th St) dates it even later, to between 1893 and 1900. However, we find no auction records for any other copy in paper wraps. LINE, ETTLINGER & GLADSTONE Tolstoi 39.