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TOLSTOI, Lev Nikolaevich, Count (1828-1910). Voina i Mir. [War and Peace]. Moscow: T. Ris, 1868-69.
6 vols in 3, 8° (238 x 156mm). With all titles and half-titles. (Some mostly marginal soiling, occasional marginal dampstain, very occasional spotting, a few repairs, a few margins short, vol. 5 lacking leaf 5.5.) Modern dark blue morocco, flat spines gilt, titled in Cyrillic, sides with gilt frames.
FIRST EDITION of one of the great nineteenth-century novels, which stands at the peak of the realist mode. Isaak Babel remarked that 'if the world could write by itself it would write like Tolstoi'. Kilgour 1196.
6 vols in 3, 8° (238 x 156mm). With all titles and half-titles. (Some mostly marginal soiling, occasional marginal dampstain, very occasional spotting, a few repairs, a few margins short, vol. 5 lacking leaf 5.5.) Modern dark blue morocco, flat spines gilt, titled in Cyrillic, sides with gilt frames.
FIRST EDITION of one of the great nineteenth-century novels, which stands at the peak of the realist mode. Isaak Babel remarked that 'if the world could write by itself it would write like Tolstoi'. Kilgour 1196.
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