What Men Live By – What Shall It Profit… : Tolstoy [ First UK Edition ]
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First English Edition of Two Short Stories By Leo Tolstoy What Men Live By and What Shall It Profit A Man?
[Tolstoy] Tolstoi, Count Leo. What Men Live By – What Shall It Profit A Man? Walter Scott Ltd. London. [c. 1890].
First UK edition of two stories by Russian author and philosopher Leo Tolstoy (here spelled Tolstoi), illustrated by noted Scottish graphic artist H.R. (Harold Robert) Millar, best known for his illustrations of fairy tales for Strand Magazine as well as his work accompanying the writings of Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit. The two religious themed stories included, What Men Live By and What Shall It Profit A Man?, were first published in Russian in 1885 and 1886, respectively,
[126]pp + 8 as. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Bruise top back edge. Shelf cocked. Soiling and darkening to front lower fore corner. Gilt edges. Some pencil marks to endpapers. Gift inscription second free endpaper with small colored pencil mark. Pages foxed. Colored pencil marks pg. 33 and 63. Pencil marks pg. 75 and 77. Fairly good.
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