DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). 'Gospodin Prokharchin' [Mr Prokharchin] in Otechestvennyia zapiski, vol.48. St Petersburg: by Il'ia Glazunov for Andrei Kraevskii, 1846.
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). 'Gospodin Prokharchin' [Mr Prokharchin] in Otechestvennyia zapiski, vol.48. St Petersburg: by Il'ia Glazunov for Andrei Kraevskii, 1846.

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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). 'Gospodin Prokharchin' [Mr Prokharchin] in Otechestvennyia zapiski, vol.48. St Petersburg: by Il'ia Glazunov for Andrei Kraevskii, 1846.

The first appearance of this short story by Dostoevsky – only his third literary publication. Based on life, it recounts the death of a miser who had accumulated a fortune while living in abject conditions. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. This volume also includes Turgenev's 'Bezdenezhe' [Lack of Money], an extract from the edition of Pushkin's collected works issued in 1841, also printed by Glazunov, and a map of European railways.

Ten parts in one volume, octavo (238 x 150mm). With the folding map of the European railways (map with some repaired tears; leaf 1.7 [not Dostoevsky] repaired in the margins; occasional light marginal soiling or wear; occasional mainly marginal dampstain). Contemporary Russian burgundy quarter leather with red spot marbled boards, flat spine lettered and ruled in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: 'F.B.N.G.' (Cyrillic initials at the foot of the spine; manuscript shelf-mark on the title).
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