May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR. The Brothers Karamazov. A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue. Translated into English by Constance Garnett, the first book in her series "The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky." 8vo, publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine gilt-titled, top edges gilt, extremities rubbed, most conspicuously to spine tips, few insignificant stray marks; internally quite clean. New York: Macmillan, 1912

Additional Details

first american edition, the first copy of this issue to appear at auction according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub. Printed from the sheets of the English edition published the same year. First published in Russky Viestnik (The Russian Messenger) in 1879-80. Rare.