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Anna Karenina 
Leo Tolstoy
New York, 1886
First edition, first printing in English of one of the greatest novels of all time.
 
Original brown cloth. Spine chipped at head and toe, joints a touch weak, otherwise a nice sound copy a bit better than Very Good - contents clean, owner signature to endpaper. The most compelling bibliographical hallmarks of the first printing are these - no titles listed at the front, floral endpapers, 5 pages of ads in the rear with no mention of other Russian titles.
 
A book to be reread after 30 years of age to fully digest the ambrosia of wisdom that Tolstoy serves. An absolutely incisive masterwork that was immediately identified as such by his also great contemporaries.