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CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904). Ostrov Sakhalin. [Sakhalin Island.] Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev and Co., 1895.
The first edition. An attractive copy of 'the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century' (Sharma). Chekhov's investigation of penal colonies in eastern Siberia appeared as a series of articles in 1893-94, in periodicals including Russkaia mysl. RBH and ABPC record only one copy having been offered at auction (Sotheby's New York, 13 December 2000, lot 27). Kilgour 233; Sharma, 'Chekhov's beautiful nonfiction', in The New Yorker, 2 February 2015.
Octavo (185 x 140mm). (Occasional faint marginal dampstain; occasional light penciled underlining.) Contemporary Russian quarter leather, brown cloth sides, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine foot chipped; corners rubbed). Provenance: N.K. (Cyrillic initials at spine foot).
The first edition. An attractive copy of 'the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century' (Sharma). Chekhov's investigation of penal colonies in eastern Siberia appeared as a series of articles in 1893-94, in periodicals including Russkaia mysl. RBH and ABPC record only one copy having been offered at auction (Sotheby's New York, 13 December 2000, lot 27). Kilgour 233; Sharma, 'Chekhov's beautiful nonfiction', in The New Yorker, 2 February 2015.
Octavo (185 x 140mm). (Occasional faint marginal dampstain; occasional light penciled underlining.) Contemporary Russian quarter leather, brown cloth sides, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine foot chipped; corners rubbed). Provenance: N.K. (Cyrillic initials at spine foot).
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