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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: NEW full-leather cover. First Collector's Edition. CLASSIC: COLLECTIBLE: NEW First Collector's Edition (Orig. 1975) First printing: Series Publication: The Easton Press: "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" : Beautifully bound in genuine leather w/ 22-karat gold-inlaid mirror-patterned-arabesques on front & back panels & on four-hub / five-section spine w/ "ANNA KARENINA" in gilt on second spine pane & "Tolstoy" on fourth pane from top, SUPERB IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior in durably-fresh gilt, EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG NEW binding w/ pages sewn in between heavy-duty binding boards w/ crimson-gold-checked spine-caps & a peach-gold satin-ribbon page marker bound-in from top, SUPERB / IMPECCABLE moire-silk front & back ed-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ ELEGANT CLARITY on cream-white acid-free archival paper especially milled for this edition, frontispiece full color portrait of author. * 5.92" x 9.0" x 2.06", 1.48 kg, xiv+938 (952) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Constance Garnet's renowned translation of Tolstoy's great classic w/ text scrupulously verified & edited & w/ translation sensitively revised: Anna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband & adored son, but her existence seems empty. When she meets the dashing Count Vronsky she rejects her marriage & turns to him to fulfill her passionate nature--w/ devastating results. One of world literature's greatest novels, "Anna Karenina" is both an immortal drama of personal conflict & social scandal & a vivid, richly-textured panorama of 19th-century Russia. * COUNT LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: CONSTANCE BLACK GARNET was a native Russian speaker, the daughter of Russian emigres to England. She met Tolstoy at his estate & later translated many of his works, as well as many works by Dostoyevski & other celebrated Russian authors. She was married to Richard Garnet, the celebrated English writer & editor. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates. Frontispiece full-color portrait of Tolstoy (illustratore). …

Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies, of which this is no.310 and signed by the artist, Eichenberg, on colophon page. Octavo (25.5cm); black cloth spine over pictorial brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; slipcase; xviii,[2],3-379,[3]pp; wood engravings to frontispiece and throughout text. Occasional pencilled marginal notes. Light rubbing to cloth spine and board edges, with trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. The publisher's tan paper-covered slipcase, with paper title label on spine, has trivial surface wear; Very Good+. Tolstoy's autobiographical novels first published separately as Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1856), this edition was published for members of The Limited Edition Club of A. Colish in New York, and includes an introduction by Bayley. [88028]. Signed.…