LES COSAQUES, [THE COSSACKS]; L'INCURSION; LA COUPE EN FORET

P.-V.Stock, 1902

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Year of publication

1902

Place of printing

Paris

Author

[Tolstoy, Count Leo], Tolstoi

Publishers

P.-V.Stock

Description

First of the Edition, Edition Littérale et Intégrale. Frontispiece portrait of Tolstoi in 1851. 8vo, bound handsomely in a contemporary French binding of black crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands, two compartements lettered in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endleaves. 445, [3] pp. A handsome and attractive copy, some old evidence of mellowing or a touch of damp to the lower foredge of a few leaves, primarily the blanks or initial prelims to to the volume, not affecting the bindings or the text and quite unobtrusive, the bindings are in good order, very well preserved with only light evidence of use. A pleasing copy.

Edizione: scarce edition. “the cossacks” is often acclaimed by both western and russian scholars as the finest of tolstoy’s early works and one of his most beautiful works across all periods.