Lot 251
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1912. First edition in English, 8vo, original red cloth, xii 838 [2] pp., half-title, colophon leaf, spine rubbed and toned, nicked and head and foot, small sections of wear to joints, covers slightly marked, tips bumped, front inner hinges superficially cracked, pp. 100-500 with faint variable damp-staining to fore margins
This work was the first instalment in Constance Garnett's series of English translations of the novels of Dostoyevsky, which eventually ran to twelve volumes, the last appearing in 1920.