letters underworld de fedor dostoieffsky (6 résultats)

XI, 308 S. Orig.-Leinenband (= Everyman's Library). - Rücken aufgehellt, fleckig und mit größerem Einriß; vorderer Deckel lichtrandig. Buchblock schiefgelesen. Widmung auf Vorsatz; ansonsten innen sauber. Ordentliches Exemplar.

Etat : Good. 1919. Reprint. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout, notable to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Book has forward lean. Mild scratching and marking to boards.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1929 Everyman's reprint. Worn and torn dust jacket has loss and is in a protective sleeve, boards faded where exposed by the dust jacket's loss, marked and tanned page edges.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the more common cloth binding. One of only 10,000 first printings. Book is good to very good with wear commensurate with age and materials. Wear most notable at head and foot of spine, bumped pages to block edge. Ultimately, a more affordable copy of this increasingly scarce first edition. Red cloth covers with first state gilt design, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the rare first state quarter pigskin binding. This binding is the rarest issue of this title. Terry Seymour predicts that only about 2% of all titles from Dent received this treatment. Given the print run of 10,000 and 2000 for sale in America (unbound), this means that the number of copies issued as such would cap around 160. Book is very near fine, showing miraculously little wear, only some lightening to spine. A copy for the most discerning collector. Brown cloth covers backed by pigskin spine, gilt titles, publisher brown protective block stain to block edges, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers not included in this binding style, instead we find a plain, woven-like endpaper. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Etat : Near Fine. First Edition in English. First edition in English of Dostoevsky's landmark novel. In the publisher's rare deluxe half pigskin binding, with spine lettered in gilt; all edges stained dark brown. Also published in this volume are the first English appearances of two other works by Dostoevsky, The Gentle Maiden and The Landlady. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, faint stain to front cover visible in raking light. The first English translation of Dostoevsky's novella Letters from the Underworld (i.e. Notes from Underground), first issued serially in Russian in 1864 in Dostoevsky's journal Epokha, which was edited by his brother Mikhail. The work has been described as "probably the most important single source of the modern dystopia." The challenge posed by the Underground Man towards the idea of an "enlightened" society laid the groundwork for later writing, serving as an important influence to Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man among others.