Le Crime et Le Chatiment (Crime and Punishment)
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 publication of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking novel, from which the first English translation of 1885 in periodical format, and in book form in 1886 by Vizetelly would come.
Price: $4,500.00
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