Published by Moscow, Izdatel'stvo "Okto," n.d. [1912]., 1912
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First available edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth, with portrait of Tolstoy mounted as inset on front cover. Small 4to. Very good condition. Includes, according to the title page, 10 portraits of Tolstoy and many facsimiles of manuscripts and letters by him. A tipped-in slip explains that the actual first printing was destroyed by court order because of the inclusion of certain letters, necessitating a new edition in which those letters were removed. Instead of resetting the book, the censored letters were replaced by blank spaces. Pre-Revolutionary old-style Russian orthography.