Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 274

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
TOLSTOY, LEO. Kreitserova sonata [The Kreutzer Sonata]. Pictorial title-page. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco over marbled boards, rebacked; hinges repaired, tape mend to verso of title-page over tear, not touching text or illustration. Moscow, 1890

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scarce first appearance, clandestine publication issued for private circulation only, mimeographed printing of the banned novella. The story caused a storm of controversy and the Russian censors forbade the publication of this novella in 1889 and at least three mimeographed versions of the book immediately circulated. Not in Fekula.