DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Podrostok . [The Adolescent, sometimes The Raw Youth.] St Petersburg: Transhel, 1876. The first edition of one of Dostoevsky's major works. The Adolescent divides opinion, but the thinker Nikolai Berdyaev characterized it as suffused with genius and much overlooked (in Russkaia mysl , March-April 1918, pp. 39-61). Kilgour 283. Three parts in one volume, octavo (208 x 140mm). (Occasional spotting; occasional light soiling; some leaves with small losses in the margin.) Contemporary Russian half leather, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine and hinges repaired; corners renewed). Provenance : 'N.G.' (Cyrillic initials at spine foot) – signature in purple ink on the first part title – Lithuanian bookseller (stamp on verso of last leaf).
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Podrostok . [The Adolescent, sometimes The Raw Youth.] St Petersburg: Transhel, 1876. The first edition of one of Dostoevsky's major works. The Adolescent divides opinion, but the thinker Nikolai Berdyaev characterized it as suffused with genius and much overlooked (in Russkaia mysl , March-April 1918, pp. 39-61). Kilgour 283. Three parts in one volume, octavo (208 x 140mm). (Occasional spotting; occasional light soiling; some leaves with small losses in the margin.) Contemporary Russian half leather, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine and hinges repaired; corners renewed). Provenance : 'N.G.' (Cyrillic initials at spine foot) – signature in purple ink on the first part title – Lithuanian bookseller (stamp on verso of last leaf).
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