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TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Detstvo i otrochestvo. [Childhood and Boyhood.] St Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1856.
The rare first edition of Tolstoy's second book, published in the same year as his first. RBH and ABPC record just two copies having sold at auction in over 35 years (most recently the Fekula copy: Christie's East, 8 June 1994, lot 334). Tolstoy's short stories earned him considerable fame years before War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Detstvo i otrochestvo is sometimes incorrectly catalogued as Tolstoy's first book; the two individual parts, Childhood and Boyhood, were completed first (in 1852 and 1854), but Voennye razskazy passed the censor two weeks earlier (on 11 May 1856). Kilgour 1192.
Twelvemo (177 x 112mm). (Marginal spotting and occasional light soiling.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather, spine titled in gilt, light green sand-grained cloth sides (corners rubbed; front hinge just starting at the foot). Provenance: A.18316 (penciled press-mark on front pastedown) – I.L. (Cyrillic initials at spine foot).
The rare first edition of Tolstoy's second book, published in the same year as his first. RBH and ABPC record just two copies having sold at auction in over 35 years (most recently the Fekula copy: Christie's East, 8 June 1994, lot 334). Tolstoy's short stories earned him considerable fame years before War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Detstvo i otrochestvo is sometimes incorrectly catalogued as Tolstoy's first book; the two individual parts, Childhood and Boyhood, were completed first (in 1852 and 1854), but Voennye razskazy passed the censor two weeks earlier (on 11 May 1856). Kilgour 1192.
Twelvemo (177 x 112mm). (Marginal spotting and occasional light soiling.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather, spine titled in gilt, light green sand-grained cloth sides (corners rubbed; front hinge just starting at the foot). Provenance: A.18316 (penciled press-mark on front pastedown) – I.L. (Cyrillic initials at spine foot).
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