Anna Karenina.

TOLSTOY, Leo. (Count Lyof N Tolstoi).

Item Number: 3567

New York: Thomas J. Crowell & Co, 1886.

First edition in English of Tolstoy’s classic novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition with some light wear to the spine extremities. Contemporary name and tasteful contemporary bookplate to the front free endpaper. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A bright example.

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as "a piece of life." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. First issued serially in 1873; first published in book form in Moscow in 1878.