New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. 620 p. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering, gilt top stain. First thus. (Title page dated 1913. Follows the translation attributed to Whishaw.) Very Good. Spine cloth toned and with several small stains, and bruised at ends. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Pages toned... More about The Idiot
London: Vizetelly, 1887. First British edition, early printing. Correct first in the English language. (Undated title page. Later state ads at verso of title page. See Line, Ettlinger and Gladstone's Bibliography of Russian Literature for basic, although incomplete, bibliography.) 456 pp. Russet paper-covered boards with blue and red lettering. Good... More about Crime and Punishment
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886. First American edition, first state ads at rear. 456, (1, ad) pp. Original dark yellow cloth lettered in maroon and gilt, floral endpapers. Very Good with spine lettering dulled, cloth at head and tail chipped, small stain and scratch to spine, a bit of... More about Crime and Punishment: A Russian Realistic Novel
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1884. First French edition. Two books in one volume, complete. Green cloth and gilt-stamped spine with paper-covered boards, leather tips. Translated from the original Russian by Victor Derely. pp. 334, 308. About Very Good condition. Foxing throughout. Small tear to title and adjacent pages. The first French... More about Le Crime et Le Chatiment (Crime and Punishment
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. (Hole-punched stamp "Advance Copy for Review / Not for Sale" on title page. First state titles opposite title page without this title mentioned, "A" on first page of text. Follows the British edition, using British sheets.)... More about A Raw Youth: A Novel in Three Parts
Leipzig: Verlag von Fr. Wilh. Grunow, 1884. First German edition, cloth issue published by newspaper Die Grenzboten as noted on half-titles and spines, published simultaneously with wrappered and red cloth issues, neither with half titles. Complete in four octavo volumes. Volume I: Half-title + TP + [v] - viii+1leaf +... More about Die Bruder Karamasow (The Brothers Karamazov
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First thus. (Title page dated 1920. First Garnett translation, following the Vizetelly edition that paired this novel with The Gambler.) About Very Good with rubbed edges, dulled gilt, cloth a little faded, pages toned and brittle. The final volume of The Novels of Fyodor... More about The Friend of the Family: or Stepantichkovo and Its Inhabitants and Another Story
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First thus. (Title page dated 1915 with the volume before this one being the last mentioned on the facing page. First Garnett translation, following the Marie von Thilo and Edwards translations.) (vi), 284 pp. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering. Original gray cloth with... More about The House of the Dead
London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. First British edition. xvi, 344 pp. Original black cloth with paper spine label. Very Good with chipped and worn spine label, , bumped corners and small chip at foot, gift inscription on front free endpaper, some offsetting to endpapers. A collection of the famous Russian writer's letters. More about Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to His Family and Friends
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First American edition. xvi, 187, (8) pp. Blue cloth with navy Aubrey Beardsley design at front (also on title page) and gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with very light staining to cloth, offsetting to endpapers, minor foxing. Gilt bright and sharp. A very neat, clean copy. More about Poor Folk
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Ltd., 1893. First illustrated edition, uncertain issue and publication date. (Undated title page, which may not be an issue point. Turner's The Walter Scott Publishing Company apparently examined a single paperback copy with a title page dated 1911 and no illustrations, while... More about Crime and Punishment