Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
[DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR.] Dostoieffsky, Fedor. Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel. Publisher's advertisement to verso of half-title. 8vo, original blue/green cloth stamped in red and black, restorations to joints and spine, spine darkened and covers with scattered soiling; hinges strengthened, floral patterned endpapers. Rare second edition, the second such example to appear at auction according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub. There appears to be no established priority between this and the first American edition (Crowell, New York) which carries the same translation and is printed from the same setting. Number XIII of Vizetelly's One-Volume Novels series. Line, Ettlinger & Gladstone, Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945, p. 17; Hubin, Crime Fiction, 1749-1980, p. 121. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886