A Hero of Our Time Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus.

by a Russe by Mikhail Yurievitch Lermontov, A Russe

$12,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853. First edition in English. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and blind. Yellow endpapers. Extremities a bit bumped, and small splits to cloth of spine at crown, center, and foot of front joint; front hinge cracked but holding. Bookseller's blindstamp of Swinerton & Brown and ownership signature of S. Powell to front endpaper. Internally

• Binding: Hardcover

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