What People Live By/What Men Live By. 1886 First Edition by Leo Tolstoy

Hardcover

Condition: Good+

First Edition

Octavo 83 pages

Original cobalt blue cloth cover with illustrated black and white paste-on picture, gilt lettering on front and spine.

Illustrated title page and three more b&w illustrations scattered throughout.

Translated from the Russian by Mrs Aline Delano, a woman.

Subsequent translators used the gendered terminology and called the book by it's more widely-known title, "What Men Live By."

Other idiosyncrasies include spelling the author's name, "Tolstoi."

Book is in good to very good condition.

Has moderately bumped corners, and a little fraying to the bottom of the spine (on the front).

Small area of soiling on FFEP and front end paper

Book also has 4 smudged/soiled pages, which is the exception, as most pages are clean and unmarked.

Binding is tight and square, cover is gorgeous in hue with shiny gilding.

A beautiful book!!