Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories -
Count Lyof [Lev] N. Tolsto
1888 - Walter Scott, London - First English Edition
First English edition of these fifteen short stories selected and translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.
With:- ‘If You Neglect the Fire You Don’t Put It Out’; ‘Where love is, there God is also’; ‘A Candle’; ‘Two Pilgrims’; ‘The Devil’s Persistent, but God is Resistant’; ‘Little Girls Wiser than Old Men’; ‘Two Brothers and Gold’; ‘Ilyás’; ‘The Three Mendicants’; ‘How the Little Devil Earned a Crust of Bread’; ‘The Repentant Sinner’; ‘A Seed as Big as a Hen’s Egg’; ‘Does a Man Need Much Land?’; ‘The Godson’; ‘Skazka (Ivan the Fool)’. Octavo (book size 19.7x14.3cm), pp. xi [1] 311 [1] [4 (publisher’s ads)]. In publisher’s textured blue cloth, spines and upper boards with gilt lettering and patterned rule, gilt vignette of the House of Romanov seal to upper boards, gilt vignette of small crown to spines, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine with the exception of some toning and foxing to endpapers, rubbing through lightly to the half-title page. Ref: 112165 Price: HK$ 2,500
With:- ‘If You Neglect the Fire You Don’t Put It Out’; ‘Where love is, there God is also’; ‘A Candle’; ‘Two Pilgrims’; ‘The Devil’s Persistent, but God is Resistant’; ‘Little Girls Wiser than Old Men’; ‘Two Brothers and Gold’; ‘Ilyás’; ‘The Three Mendicants’; ‘How the Little Devil Earned a Crust of Bread’; ‘The Repentant Sinner’; ‘A Seed as Big as a Hen’s Egg’; ‘Does a Man Need Much Land?’; ‘The Godson’; ‘Skazka (Ivan the Fool)’. Octavo (book size 19.7x14.3cm), pp. xi [1] 311 [1] [4 (publisher’s ads)]. In publisher’s textured blue cloth, spines and upper boards with gilt lettering and patterned rule, gilt vignette of the House of Romanov seal to upper boards, gilt vignette of small crown to spines, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine with the exception of some toning and foxing to endpapers, rubbing through lightly to the half-title page. Ref: 112165 Price: HK$ 2,500