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DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor (1821-1881). Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: Iosafat Ogrizko, 1862.
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor (1821-1881). Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: Iosafat Ogrizko, 1862.
2 volumes, 8o (206 x 133 mm). Half-titles. Contemporary red half morocco gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Jacques Povolozky, bookseller and publisher in Paris ("Editions Russes et Francaises" bookseller's label).
First complete edition, following the publication of volume one only by Eduard Prats and the serial publication by Bazunov in the literary journal Time (both also published in 1862). Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience of four years of imprisonment in Katoga prison camp near Omsk, Siberia. Kilgour 279 (this edition).
2 volumes, 8o (206 x 133 mm). Half-titles. Contemporary red half morocco gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Jacques Povolozky, bookseller and publisher in Paris ("Editions Russes et Francaises" bookseller's label).
First complete edition, following the publication of volume one only by Eduard Prats and the serial publication by Bazunov in the literary journal Time (both also published in 1862). Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience of four years of imprisonment in Katoga prison camp near Omsk, Siberia. Kilgour 279 (this edition).