War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
One of the greatest novels of all time.
First edition, first printing in English- released in two volume increments in January, May, and July of 1886(Before Tilsit Volume 2 a second printing from 1887).
Publisher's elaborately decorated brown cloth, front boards gilt-stamped with Napoleonic and Russian Imperial crests, spines gilt-lettered, brown-coated endpapers. Contemporary owner's signature in Before Tilsit Volume 1. A nice set ranging from Very Good to Near Fine.
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Synopsis
War and Peace, a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. First titled '1805' the first installment was published in the January 1865 edition of Russkiy Vestnik. It ran in serial form for 2 years before Tolstoy reworked much of the manuscript before publishing it in 1869 as War and Peace.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Anniroc Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 146
- Title
- War and Peace
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gottsberger
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- RUSSIAN LITERATURE, VIZETELLY, DOSTOEVSKY, TOLSTOY, TOLSTOI, GOTTSBERGER, WAR AND PEACE, RUSSIA, ANNA KARENINA, MOSCOW, FRANCE, NAPOLEON, MILITARY, GOGOL
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