Description:
Book: Very fine. Dust jacket: Very fine. First and only authoritative translation in English of the complete text of this seminal novel, together with a large scholarly apparatus. In its structure and literary devices, later called modernism, Petersburg anticipated the work of James Joyce and other twentieth-century experimentalists. Map design on the endpapers. Tight binding; a bright and fresh copy in all respects. Probably unread.One-sixteenth inch tear at the lower front flap fold of the dust jacket, barely visible and closed without loss; very faint toning and very slight curling along top rear edge of the jacket; light foxing along the top edge of the text block. A virtually unobtainable work, especially in this near-pristine state.