The Horse-Stealers and other Stories
TCHEHOV, Anton, [[Anton, CHEKHOV], ]
[Translated] From the Russian by Constance Garnett. [First English Edition].
FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH
Published: Chatto & Windus, 1921
Stock code: 30042
Price: £48.00
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Collects seven short stories, published as The Tales of Tchehov Vol. VII but complete in itself. Chekhov's short stories, widely regarded as among the finest written, first came to the attention of English readers when two small selections were translated by Long in the early years of the twentieth century. The full scope of his work in this genre was not appreciated until publication of Constance Garnett's monumental collection of thirteen volumes (1916-1922) of which the present volume forms part. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Meister 414.