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    By Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude [trans & ed]
    London   The Tolstoy Society, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford
    8" by 5.5"
    An impressive twenty-one volume edition of the works of celebrated Russian novelist and ethicist Leo Tolstoy, one of the most influential authors of all time.
    By Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude [trans & ed]

    1928-1937 The Works of Leo Tolstoy

    London   The Tolstoy Society, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford
    8" by 5.5"
    An impressive twenty-one volume edition of the works of celebrated Russian novelist and ethicist Leo Tolstoy, one of the most influential authors of all time.
    £1,750.00
    : 30kgs / : 946F26
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    Description

    Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    Complete in twenty-one volumes.

    An impressive and scarce twenty-one volume edition of the works of Leo Tolstoy, translated into English and edited by Aylmer Maude, and with Maude's biography of Tolstoy serving as volumes I and II.

    This set was published to celebrate the centenary of Tolstoy's birth.

    Each volume is illustrated with frontispiece etchings or photogravures.

    Each volume features an introduction from various writers, including Hugh Walpole and H. G. Wells.

    Volumes 1 & 2: Life of Tolstoy, First Fifty Years and Later Years, by Aylmer Maude
    Volume 3: Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
    Volume 4: Tales of My Life
    Volume 5: Nine Stories
    Volumes 6, 7 & 8: War and Peace
    Volumes 9 & 10: Anna Karenina
    Volume 11: A Confession & The Gospel in Brief
    Volume 12: On Life & Essays on Religion 
    Volume 13: Twenty-Three Tales
    Volume 14: What then Must we Do?
    Volume 15: Ivan Ilych & Hadji Murad
    Volume 16: The Devil and Cognate Tales
    Volume 17: Plays
    Volume 18: What is Art? & Essays on Art
    Volume 19: Resurrection
    Volume 20: The Kingdom of God & Peace Essays
    Volume 21: Recollections & Essays

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Light shelf wear to back strip tails, with the odd bump to back strip heads. Fading to back strips of volumes 4, 6, and 9, with volumes 10, 12 and 13 back strips lightly age toned. Light tide marks to board tails of volume 8, with significant tide mark to front board of volume 9. Light handling marks to front board of volume 12. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide mark to fore edge of vol 1 frontispiece. Light tide mark to tail of frontispiece and title page of volume 8. Pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright.

    Very Good Indeed

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