The Final Struggle
TOLSTOY, Countess
Being Countess Tolstoy's Diary for 1910. With Extracts from Leo Tolstoy's Diary of the same Period. Preface by S.L. Tolstoy. Translated with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude. [First English Edition].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Allen & Unwin, [1936]
Stock code: 31631
Price: £110.00
8vo., First Edition thus; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettering faded but entirely legible, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one or two short closed tears.
The dustwrapper reproduces the last photograph (not present in the work itself) of Tolstoy and his wife. 'The history of literature hardly contains a stranger and more pathetic story than this record of the intrigues and persecution that drove Russia's greatest writer to his death.' VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.