TOLSTOY, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1886). Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, patterned endpapers.“SHEER PERFECTION AS A WORK OF ART”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ANNA KARENINA

First edition in English of Tolstoy’s masterpiece.

Upon first reading it, Dostoyevsky wrote: “Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.”