Dostoieffsky Fedor Hogarth (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition of this English translation, in the scarcer Australian cloth and with the even scarcer jacket. Green cloth, unlike the American or UK issues' red, with a more elaborate front board blind stamping. Book is quite nice condition, with some tanning to endpapers and with previous owner name to pastedown, a bump to fore edge. Jacket is fair to good condition, with some pieces missing, mostly to spine, but what remains is largely unobscured by damage. Small 307 page octavo, green cloth, gilt titles, textual jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the more common cloth binding. One of only 10,000 first printings. Book is good to very good with wear commensurate with age and materials. Wear most notable at head and foot of spine, bumped pages to block edge. Ultimately, a more affordable copy of this increasingly scarce first edition. Red cloth covers with first state gilt design, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the rare first state quarter pigskin binding. This binding is the rarest issue of this title. Terry Seymour predicts that only about 2% of all titles from Dent received this treatment. Given the print run of 10,000 and 2000 for sale in America (unbound), this means that the number of copies issued as such would cap around 160. Book is very near fine, showing miraculously little wear, only some lightening to spine. A copy for the most discerning collector. Brown cloth covers backed by pigskin spine, gilt titles, publisher brown protective block stain to block edges, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers not included in this binding style, instead we find a plain, woven-like endpaper. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition in English. First edition in English of Dostoevsky's landmark novel. In the publisher's rare deluxe half pigskin binding, with spine lettered in gilt; all edges stained dark brown. Also published in this volume are the first English appearances of two other works by Dostoevsky, The Gentle Maiden and The Landlady. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, faint stain to front cover visible in raking light. The first English translation of Dostoevsky's novella Letters from the Underworld (i.e. Notes from Underground), first issued serially in Russian in 1864 in Dostoevsky's journal Epokha, which was edited by his brother Mikhail. The work has been described as "probably the most important single source of the modern dystopia." The challenge posed by the Underground Man towards the idea of an "enlightened" society laid the groundwork for later writing, serving as an important influence to Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man among others.