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TOLSTOY, Count Lev Nikolayevich (1828-1910). Anna Karenina. Nathan Haskell Dole, translator. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886.
8vo (191 x 127 mm). Frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, numerous illustrations. (Some soiling, some marginal chipping in vol. II.) 20th-century navy morocco gilt (some light wear, joints starting).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, "the first to be published in English," with glossary at the end of vol. II. Anna Karenina was first published in book form in Moscow in 1878.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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