Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy, tr. Constance Garnett
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The Modern LIbrary, 1931. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 950 pages. Date of printing not stated, but indicated as 1931 by list of ML titles at the back of the book. Constance Garnett's translation of Tolstoy's classic novel (1878) first appeared in 1901. 4-1/2" x 6-5/8", green cloth over flexible boards, gilt ML logo on front and lettering on spine, backstrip greatly sunned, torn and separated from spine (reglued), back board detached and front board partially so, faded topstain, end papers decorated with ML logo pattern, slightly cocked, wear to corners, hinges cracked inside the end papers. "Fair" condition refers to the exterior; interior pages are good. Old price in pencil written on ffep, pencil marks in margin on approximately 100 pages, underscoring on a few, page-reference notes by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on rear end papers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-405
- Title
- Anna Karenina
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy, tr. Constance Garnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern LIbrary
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russian and Soviet literature;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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