War and Peace
A Historical Novel
by
Leo Tolstoy

Translated from the French edition by Clara Bell
 
First American edition, first printing;
complete in six volumes
 
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. Six volumes. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and black stamping, dark brown endpapers. First American edition, all first printings with properly dated title pages and publisher's imprint on all copyright pages. Near Fine with wear at heads and tails, tips a little rubbed, front hinges a little free, former owners' bookplates on paste downs of three of the volumes. German bookstore's stamp on title page of Vol. II of Borodino. Spines of first volume of Borodino and Vol. II of Before Tilsit a little rubbed and slightly dulled. Gilt generally very bright, cloth clean. An excellent, unsophisticated set of a true classic of Russian literature.