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War and Peace; Volume 1 (Before Tilsit)
by Tolstoy, Leo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Poor
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. introduction by Vicomte De Vogue. Illustrated endpapers -- being a peach coloured design. Red coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed publisher's colophon to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Pale purple coloured tint to the top textblock edge. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured coloured titles to the front panel and to the backstrip. Volume 1, of a three volume set, of the classic novel about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. Part of Everyman's Library – number 525. Softening to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the lower book edges. . Light age toning to the textblock edges and to the internal pages. Fading to the backstrip, commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Original bookseller's rubber stamp to the lower left-hand corner of the free front end paper. This dustwrapper is in bad shape. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip corners, in fact, the top 0.5 " of the backstrip is missing. There is a angle tear, 1.25 ", to the top left-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel, with associated creasing. A small piece is missing from the lower left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel and the backstrip is sunned. There is a horizontal tear to the backstrip at the lower edge of the title insert. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (6), VII-XII, 428, (6 – Everyman's Library by Ernest Rhys, essay) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Classics; Russia; Inventory No: 0113536. .
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
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0113536
- Title
- War and Peace; Volume 1 (Before Tilsit)
- Author
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fiction, Russia, war, Napoleonic invasion, social, Everyman's Library -- Series -- Number 525 Literature & Literary; Classics; Russia; Unbranded Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace; Volume 1 (Before Tilsit)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Reprint
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- Gilt
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- Colophon
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- Dustwrapper
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- Edges
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Sunned
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- Chipping
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- Rubbing
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