May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
DOSTOYEVSKY, FEODOR. Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel. Author portrait frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's russet cloth stamped in maroon and gilt, moderate fingersoiling, lower half of spine and small portion of front cover darkened, spine tips fraying slightly; contemporary ownership signature on early blank; paperclip ghost to blank corners of pp. 430-433. A tight, square copy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]

Additional Details

first american edition. 1-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Scarce. WorldCat lists only two copies: the Library of Congress and the University of Tennessee. Line, Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945.