Buried Alive; Or, Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia by Fedor Dostoyeffsky
1881. First American Edition. 361 pages. No dust jacket. Green decorative cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Translated by Marie von Thilo. With 1 page of 'slips for librarians catalogue cards' at front; 2pp of adverts to rear. Brown endpapers. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Rear hinge cracked, with some netting visible and slight tear to pastedown at top of hinge, thus the board is slack. Small brown stains and marks to a number of pages. Text block edges slightly scratched. Slight stain to upper edge. Pencil price to rear pastedown. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges, corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing, small brown spots, and marking across the boards. Slight, faint brown liquid stain to front. Notable sunning to spine. Gilt is bright.