Tolstoy Leo Translated Nathan Haskell (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A gift book from the late nineteenth century. Faux white leather binding with floral decoration on the front cover. Light wear to the binding. Some soiling to the front and rear covers. A birthday gift presentation from 1904 on the front flyleaf. No odor. No water damage. 38pp.

343pp. + ads 8vo Green cloth, decorative endpapers 1st American edition? Light cover wear, owner's inscription in pencil on front flyleaf, else nice clean tight bright copy: VG+ to Near Fine/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated By E,H, Garrett (illustrator). One volume which states Volume II-II & IV. 424 pp + 408 pp. No dustjacket. B&W plates. Clean maroon hardback binding with moderate wear to boards' cornerds and spine-ends. Dulled gilt coloured lettering. B&W illustrations. Page-edges lightly browned/greyed, prize label pasted to inside of front board.

First edition in English of Tolstoy's masterpiece with all the points of first issue: sheets bulk to 35 mm, floral patterned endpapers, "13 Astor Place" on title page, no front adverts, and 5 pp. of rear adverts not listing Russian titles. Octavo, original cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers. Introduction and translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.ÂIn very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as "a piece of life." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. First issued serially in 1873; first published in book form in Moscow in 1878. Upon first reading it, Dostoyevsky wrote: âAnna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.â.