DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Malen’kij geroj. [A Little Hero]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866. The rare first separate edition, with the original wrappers , of ‘the last of Dostoevsky’s pre-Siberian stories’ and ‘one of the brightest’ (Lantz). It was first published anonymously in 1857 in the journal Notes of the Fatherland from a draft in possession of Mikhail, Fyodor’s elder brother, during the latter’s Siberian confinement. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. Lantz, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia , p.245. Octavo (180 x 125mm). Edges uncut (slight mainly marginal foxing, minor waterstaining to upper margin, small tears to outer margin of few leaves, one quire loose). Original printed wrappers (traces of glue at inner gutter of upper wrapper, minor loss at foot of spine). Provenance: ‘Biblioteka S.V. Belova’ (modern inscription to verso of title) - unidentified inscription dated 1931 (title).
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Malen’kij geroj. [A Little Hero]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866. The rare first separate edition, with the original wrappers , of ‘the last of Dostoevsky’s pre-Siberian stories’ and ‘one of the brightest’ (Lantz). It was first published anonymously in 1857 in the journal Notes of the Fatherland from a draft in possession of Mikhail, Fyodor’s elder brother, during the latter’s Siberian confinement. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. Lantz, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia , p.245. Octavo (180 x 125mm). Edges uncut (slight mainly marginal foxing, minor waterstaining to upper margin, small tears to outer margin of few leaves, one quire loose). Original printed wrappers (traces of glue at inner gutter of upper wrapper, minor loss at foot of spine). Provenance: ‘Biblioteka S.V. Belova’ (modern inscription to verso of title) - unidentified inscription dated 1931 (title).
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