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Lot 155
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolayevich, Count (1828-1910). The Novels & Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903-1904.
24 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, frontispieces in 2 states. Contemporary half dark-green morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, gilt-decorated in 4, top edges gilt, others uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY STIKEMAN & CO. (sunning to a few spines, a few minor stains).
LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 150 copies printed on Ruisdael paper. This edition includes Tolstoy's major novels Anna Karenina, Resurrection, and War and Peace and other short stories and writings. While Tolstoy has never won the Nobel Prize, he was nominated for the award 19 times between 1901 and 1909, all of which he declined.
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