Nov 10, 2016 - Sale 2430

Sale 2430 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
[TOLSTOY, LEO.] Tolstoï, Count Léon. War and Peace: A Historical Novel. Translated into French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell. 3 parts in 6 volumes. 12mo, original brown cloth, decorated and lettered in black and gilt, spine heads slightly rubbed with a little fraying, corners bumped with minimal exposure, brown coated endpapers; Bolling J. Watkins ownership stamp to first blank of each, else contents clean and unmarked; publisher's catalogue and promo slips laid-in. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886

Additional Details

first american edition. a scarce set of all six volumes of the first english translation of War and Peace with Gottsberger imprint on title pages. Publisher's advertisements at ends of volumes 1, 3, 5 and 6. A fine set.