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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [The Complete Collected Works]. St Petersburg: F. Stellovskii, 1865-1870.
This attractive collected edition of Dostoevsky's works – the second, enlarged, after the edition of 1860 – includes the first edition of the novel 'The Gambler', and the first book-form appearance of several important works, including: 'Notes from the Underground', 'The Village of Stepanchikovo', and 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions'. 'The Gambler' was inspired by Dostoevsky's own addiction to gambling; he produced the novel for Stellovskii, to a very tight deadline, to pay off creditors. Had Dostoevsky failed to meet his deadline, Stellovskii would have won the right to publish any of his work, past and future, with no benefit to Dostoevsky. Volume 4 consists entirely of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Not in Kilgour.
Four volumes, quarto (260 x 200mm). (Occasional faint dampstain.) Contemporary Russian burgundy quarter leather with mottled paper sides and cloth corners (spines evenly faded to brown; some joints chipped at the head; edges rubbed; newspaper clippings pasted to the rear endpapers of vol. 1).
This attractive collected edition of Dostoevsky's works – the second, enlarged, after the edition of 1860 – includes the first edition of the novel 'The Gambler', and the first book-form appearance of several important works, including: 'Notes from the Underground', 'The Village of Stepanchikovo', and 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions'. 'The Gambler' was inspired by Dostoevsky's own addiction to gambling; he produced the novel for Stellovskii, to a very tight deadline, to pay off creditors. Had Dostoevsky failed to meet his deadline, Stellovskii would have won the right to publish any of his work, past and future, with no benefit to Dostoevsky. Volume 4 consists entirely of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'. RBH and ABPC record no copy having been offered at auction. Not in Kilgour.
Four volumes, quarto (260 x 200mm). (Occasional faint dampstain.) Contemporary Russian burgundy quarter leather with mottled paper sides and cloth corners (spines evenly faded to brown; some joints chipped at the head; edges rubbed; newspaper clippings pasted to the rear endpapers of vol. 1).
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