Ordeal A Trilogy The Sisters 1918 Bleak Morning Three Volumes 1953
Tolstoy, Alexei; Litvinova, Ivy and Tatiana (translators)
$175.00
Place Published: Moscow
Edition: 1st English Edition (not stated)
Date Published: 1953
Illustrator: b&w illustrations
Size: 3 volumes 8vo
Three volume complete set of Alexei Tolstoy’s historical novel, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution; 1st English Edition (presumed/not stated) translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinova; book design Y. Kogan, b&w illustrations (frontispiece and tailpiece) by V. Sveshnikov; vol 1 with hand-tipped frontispiece photo illustration of Tolstoy; all volumes with red silk bookmarks; all vols brown buckram with gilt titling and ornated borders to front boards and spine; all vols with bookshop stamps to rear endpapers, mild toning to endpapers, occasional foxing in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards a little rubbed, gilt titling dulled, silk bookmarks frayed at ends; all vols with red topstain.