A Common Story.

(Goncharov.) GONTCHAROFF (Ivan)

A Common Story.

A Novel. Translated by Constance Garnett. [Heinemann's International Library, Edited by Edmund Gosse, Vol. XVII.]

Description: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a Preface by the Editor, pp. xii, 283, 20 [publisher's list], crown 8vo, original pink cloth, lettered in blue to upper board and backstrip, the lettering a little rubbed, backstrip darkened with a dark spot halfway down lower joint, waterstaining to lower board causing a little cloth-bleed to border of rear pastedown, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, general soiling, corners a little knocked, fair

Publication Details: William Heinemann, 1894

Notes: An important book: the first translation undertaken by Constance Garnett, whose work in bringing Russian authors to an English-speaking readership remains a towering achievement.The pink cloth issue was more expensive than that in wrappers - both are scarce and neither tend to survive well.

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Price: £150

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1894

Stock Number: 65215

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