The Possessed. A Novel in Three Parts [Demons; Devils]. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky Volume III.

DOSTOEVSKY [DOSTOYEVSKY], Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881), [GARNETT, Constance, translator].

London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Russian Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 637 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a blind device to upper. Small blue bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. A black ink ownership, and a blue ink Convent school inscription to flyleaf. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Occasional light thumbing and creasing. Light rubbing to cloth with some white splashes to boards. Spine toned and gilt dulled, with a small white 'VI' to base denoting the Convent form number. Very good. The third volume of Dostoevsky's works translated by Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and notably not one of the titles translated into English by Frederick Whishaw in the 1880s. Item #56891

Price: £4,500.00