Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
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, spine tanned with rubbing to head and foot, beginning to fray, ring stains (and small ink stain) to front board; erased pencil inscription to front endpaper, penciled ownership inscription to title, and additional notes to rear endpaper, small semicircular stain in upper blank margin to approximately first 15 pages, unobtrusive inkstamped price to rear pastedown. New York: Macmillan, 1912

Additional Details

first american edition. Printed from the sheets of the English edition published the same year. First published in Russky Viestnik (The Russian Messenger) in 1879-80. Scarce.