TALES OF THREE CENTURIES ... Translated from the Russian

by Jeremiah Curtin by Michael Zagoskin, Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. Octavo, original decorated two-part brown and gray cloth stamped in gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Collects three novellas that trace the evolution of robbery in Russia over a period of three centuries: An Evening on the Hopyor, The Three Suitors, and Kuzma Roschin. The translator adds a twenty-page introduction in which he relates an amusing devil story.

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