Dostoevsky Fyodor Introduction Thomas Mann (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A good, solid copy with some fading to the cover. Occasional lines to mark passages, but no notes or writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dial Press, New York, 1945, Hardcover, no statement of printing - assumed first American edition of this collection. Contains: The Gambler, Notes From Underground, Uncle's Dream, The Eternal Husband, The Double and The Friend of The Family. Book is Very Good but with some faint soiling on the boards, two small spots of stain and a line of tiny white spots on the spine - paint?, bumps to top and bottom of spine, binding holding just fine, internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Very Good minus - some chipping, scuffs, closed tears at the forward corners, jacket comes in a removable, archival mylar sleeve. A nice copy for its 80 plus years.

FIRST EDITION thus of this important collected volume of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction in English. Publisher's original beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red to front board and spine; designs and lettering bright and unfaded. Full pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, preserved in archival mylar. Binding sound and square; pages clean and unmarked. Printing not stated; no indication of later impression. Issued by The Dial Press in 1945 by special arrangement with The Macmillan Company. Condition: Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket, with light to modest shelf wear to edges. Contents: The Gambler; Notes from Underground; Uncle's Dream; The Eternal Husband; The Double; The Friend of the Family. These works had not previously appeared together in a single American collected edition. Dial Press presented them here for the first time as a unified volume, reflecting renewed mid-century American engagement with Russian literature. Collector's Note: This Dial Press volume represents the first collected American edition of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction in English. Issued in 1945 with an introduction by Thomas Mann and translated by Constance Garnett, it reflects mid-twentieth-century American recognition of Dostoevsky as a foundational figure of modern psychological and philosophical literature. Copies retaining the original pictorial dust jacket are increasingly scarce, and the edition is valued for its authoritative contents, serious literary presentation, and durable publisher's binding. More photos on request and with our pleasure. Book will be carefully wrapped and boxed securely for safe handling during transit, with international shipping available. [Attributes: First Edition Thus; Hard Cover; in Dust Jacket].