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DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR. Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel. Author portrait frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt, cosmetic touch-up to head and foot of spine; ownership signature to top of front flyleaf, else contents clean. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]
superb copy of the first american edition. 1-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. There appears to be no established priority between this and the first English edition (Vizitelly, London) which carries the same translation and is printed from the same setting. The best copy we've seen. Line, Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945.
