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TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852. Translated from the Russian by Eugene Schuyler. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1878.
8vo. Half-title, 4pp. publisher’s ads at end. Original decorated red cloth stamped in black, spine gilt-stamped (heavy spotting, extremities worn with some tears at head). Provenance: George W. Schuyler (1810-1888), ownership signature of the father of the translator; Eugene Schuyler Grant(?), ownership signature below.
FIRST EDITION TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, and the first translation of Tolstoy in an American edition.