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Auction archive: Lot number 27

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Skvernyj anekdot. [A Nasty Story]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866.

Estimate
£700 - £900
ca. US$900 - US$1,158
Price realised:
£750
ca. US$965
Auction archive: Lot number 27

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Skvernyj anekdot. [A Nasty Story]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866.

Estimate
£700 - £900
ca. US$900 - US$1,158
Price realised:
£750
ca. US$965
Beschreibung:

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Skvernyj anekdot. [A Nasty Story]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866. A rare lifetime edition, with the original wrappers. First serialized in the journal Vremja in 1862, it anticipates ‘the makings of all subsequent images, paintings, ideas, artistic and logical techniques’ used by Dostoevsky (Mikhailovskij). Rare institutionally and on the market: RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. Mikhailovsky, Stat’i o russkoj literature, p. 157. Octavo (185 x 130mm). With the advertisements, edges uncut (slight toning, one quire loose, small tear to outer blank margin of one leaf, light marginal waterstaining to second half). Original printed paper wrappers (some spotting, outer margin of lower waterstained). Provenance: ‘Sh. Shakmatovoj’ (contemporary inscription to title) - rubber stamp ‘Litfond SSSR’ (in Cyrillic) - unidentified stamp to rear wrapper.

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Skvernyj anekdot. [A Nasty Story]. St Petersburg: Th. Stellovsky, 1866. A rare lifetime edition, with the original wrappers. First serialized in the journal Vremja in 1862, it anticipates ‘the makings of all subsequent images, paintings, ideas, artistic and logical techniques’ used by Dostoevsky (Mikhailovskij). Rare institutionally and on the market: RBH and ABPC record no other copies being offered at auction. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii. Mikhailovsky, Stat’i o russkoj literature, p. 157. Octavo (185 x 130mm). With the advertisements, edges uncut (slight toning, one quire loose, small tear to outer blank margin of one leaf, light marginal waterstaining to second half). Original printed paper wrappers (some spotting, outer margin of lower waterstained). Provenance: ‘Sh. Shakmatovoj’ (contemporary inscription to title) - rubber stamp ‘Litfond SSSR’ (in Cyrillic) - unidentified stamp to rear wrapper.

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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