Item #511 The Awakening [The Resurrection]. Count Leo Tolstoi.
The Awakening [The Resurrection]

The Awakening [The Resurrection]

New York: Street & Smith, 1900. Pasternak, Leonid (1862-1945) father of Boris Pasternak. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Grey cloth over boards, title and author image stamped in gilt and maroon onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (7-7/16 inches tall), pp. 317, all edges trimmed, top edge gilt, author portrait frontis, title page printed in black and red, 4 illustrations [5 inc. frontis]. Volume with cover illustration lightly rubbed, wear to spine ends, spine tilt, small 1/2" piece missing at bottom of one leaf. Page 15 has a few lines taken from a letter written in French - pertaining to the story - neatly translated into English underneath. Very Good. Item #511

First published in Russia in 1899 and later translated by William E. Smith, this was the last novel written by Tolstoy.

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