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Title: The Schoolmaster and other stories
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 1921
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Nr. Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Russian Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COLLECTION, First Impressions Thus. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo (16 x 11 x 29cm). Recently re-bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed. Crisp, clean copies in attractive new leather bindings. In her lifetime, Constance Garnett produced over seventy first English translations of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and several other Russian authors. She was credited by many as being responsible for introducing a whole generation of English speaking readers to the Russian modernists. Most of the works in this set are hence the first English editions. Seller Inventory # 68128
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Russian Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COLLECTION, First Impressions Thus. Complete in 16 volumes. Octavo (16 x 11 x 29cm). Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels on spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed. Rubber abrasion removing various coloured pencil prices to half-title of volume I, otherwise crisp, clean copies in attractive new leather bindings. In her lifetime, Constance Garnett produced over seventy first English translations of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and several other Russian authors. She was credited by many as being responsible for introducing a whole generation of English speaking readers to the Russian modernists. Most of the works in this set are hence the first English editions. In addition to the complete St. Martin's Library Edition, this collection also includes 'The Wood Demon', translated by Koteliansky. Seller Inventory # 70207
Quantity: 1 available