New York: Willey Book Company, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, top-edge gilt, pp. [vi], 302; [vi], 323. Spine ends starting, fading and flaking to gilt on spine, otherwise a very good, clean, tight copy. 7 short stories: The Bishop; The Letter; Easter Eve; A Nightmare; The Murder; Uprooted; The Steppe. Followed by 8 short stories: The Duel; Excellent People; Mire; Neighbours; At Home; Expensive Lessons; the Princess; The Chemist's Wife.

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From the book:The evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed heaving like the sea, and to Bishop Pyotr, who had been unwell for the last three days, it seemed that all the faces - old and young, men's and women's - were alike, that everyone who came up for the palm had the same expression in his eyes. In the mist he could not see the doors; the crowd kept moving and looked as though there were no end to it. The female choir was singing, a nun was reading the prayers for the day. How stifling, how hot it was! How long the service went on! Bishop Pyotr was tired. His breathing was laboured and rapid, his throat was parched, his shoulders ached with weariness, his legs were trembling. And it disturbed him unpleasantly when a religious maniac uttered occasional shrieks in the gallery. And then all of a sudden, as though in a dream or delirium, it seemed to the bishop as though his own mother Marya Timofyevna, whom he had not seen for nine years, or some old woman just like his mother, came up to him out of the crowd, and, after taking a palm branch from him, walked away looking at him all the while good-humouredly with a kind, joyful smile until she was lost in the crowd. And for some reason tears flowed down his face.

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Bookseller: Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1193
Title: The Bishop and other Stories
Author: CHEKHOV, ANTON
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Willey Book Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1919

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...