Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Complete Works Volume Five. I. Our Mutual Friend Translated by R. L. Sementkovsky. II. Oliver Twist Translated by V. V. Chuyko. Price of each volume 1 r. 50 k.
- 1893
1893. St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov Publishers, 1893.
Two volumes in one, 4to, [iv], 992, [4] pp., printed and numbered in two columns, with typographic headpiece to page one, text in Russian Cyrillic script. Rebound in modern full dark-brown calf with title in gilt to backstrip. A sprinkle of minor foxing and some small scuff marks to boards; otherwise in very good, bright condition.
§ First edition thus. An exceedingly rare translation, with no complete sets noted in any library. Simon Beattie notes: "Yours (item 38) comes from the first Russian collected edition (10 vols, 1892-7; Fridlender & Katarskii, Charl'z Dikkens, bibliografiia russkikh perevodov ... (Moscow, 1962) 5).
Two volumes in one, 4to, [iv], 992, [4] pp., printed and numbered in two columns, with typographic headpiece to page one, text in Russian Cyrillic script. Rebound in modern full dark-brown calf with title in gilt to backstrip. A sprinkle of minor foxing and some small scuff marks to boards; otherwise in very good, bright condition.
§ First edition thus. An exceedingly rare translation, with no complete sets noted in any library. Simon Beattie notes: "Yours (item 38) comes from the first Russian collected edition (10 vols, 1892-7; Fridlender & Katarskii, Charl'z Dikkens, bibliografiia russkikh perevodov ... (Moscow, 1962) 5).
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Title
Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Complete Works Volume Five. I. Our Mutual Friend Translated by R. L. Sementkovsky. II. Oliver Twist Translated by V. V. Chuyko. Price of each volume 1 r. 50 k.
Author
Dickens, Charles
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Date
1893