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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Bednye liudi. Roman. [Poor Folk. A Novel.] St Petersburg: F. Stellovskii, 1865.
The definitive edition of Dostoevsky's debut novel, with the author's final revisions to the text. First published to great acclaim in a periodical in 1846, Dostoevsky took criticism seriously and made important stylistic changes for the subsequent editions of 1847, 1860 and 1865. This edition was published by Stellovskii, with whom Dostoevsky entered into a contract soon after his brother Mikhail died, burdening the author with his debts and dependents. The contract stipulated that if Dostoevsky did not complete a new novel for Stellovskii by 1 November 1866, all rights to all Dostoevsky's past and future works would belong to Stellovskii. Dostoevsky discharged the obligation by delivering the manuscript for The Gambler on the very last day permitted.
16mo (160 x 116mm). (Repaired tear in leaf 4.1; a few page numbers trimmed by the binders; small ink stain in the last two leaves affecting a few words.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather, lettered up the spine in gilt (spine faded; extremities rubbed). Provenance: N.K.U. (binding); remnants of a pink bookplate on the front endpaper.
The definitive edition of Dostoevsky's debut novel, with the author's final revisions to the text. First published to great acclaim in a periodical in 1846, Dostoevsky took criticism seriously and made important stylistic changes for the subsequent editions of 1847, 1860 and 1865. This edition was published by Stellovskii, with whom Dostoevsky entered into a contract soon after his brother Mikhail died, burdening the author with his debts and dependents. The contract stipulated that if Dostoevsky did not complete a new novel for Stellovskii by 1 November 1866, all rights to all Dostoevsky's past and future works would belong to Stellovskii. Dostoevsky discharged the obligation by delivering the manuscript for The Gambler on the very last day permitted.
16mo (160 x 116mm). (Repaired tear in leaf 4.1; a few page numbers trimmed by the binders; small ink stain in the last two leaves affecting a few words.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather, lettered up the spine in gilt (spine faded; extremities rubbed). Provenance: N.K.U. (binding); remnants of a pink bookplate on the front endpaper.
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