The Brothers Karamazov - 1912 - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Description: Title: The Brothers Karamazov-Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky-Publisher and Year: Macmillan, 1912 (NY)-Edition: This is the first printing of the first edition (in English), with 1912 on the bottom of the title page. This is the American edition, which was co-released simultaneously with the UK edition. The relative quantity of the American and UK edition remains unknown. The original Russian edition is nearly impossible to find, commanding prices well into the five figures. -Condition and Description: Pale blue-grey boards, narrow blind-debossed ruled border on both boards, gilt lettering on the spine with the author and title surrounded by a narrow gilt ruled border, top edge gilt; octavo size (7 5/8" by 5 3/8"), pagination: [i-iv] v-vii [1, blank] 1-838 [1, printer's statement]. Hinges and binding tight. Hinges and binding tight. Previous owner's name, oddly in duplicate, on the front flyleaf. A small bookseller's stamp on the rear pastedown. Else free and clear of writing, underlining, etc. Clean pages. An excellent example.-“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Feodor Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov- I - 978 - 426 - 537 - I

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