May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
DOSTOYEVSKY, FEODOR. Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel. Author portrait frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in maroon and gilt, slightly skewed, minor repairs to spine tips, modest shelfwear; front pastedown with oval paper repair, ownership signature to pastedowns, bookplate. 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.