DOSTOEVSKY: BROTHERS KARAMAZOV/LIMITED EDITIONS/ALEXANDER KING SIGNED 1933, $400

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DOSTOEVSKY: BROTHERS KARAMAZOV/LIMITED EDITIONS/ALEXANDER KING SIGNED 1933, $400 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 3 BOOK SET IN SLIPCASE THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: A NOVEL IN FOUR PARTS AND AN EPILOGUE. BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. THE TRANSLATION AND CONSTANCE GARNETT REVISED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AVRAHM YARMOLINSKY. WITH EIGHTEEN PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEXANDER KING. VOLUME I, VOLUME II, AND VOLUME III. 3 BOOK SET. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Signed by Artist. First Edition, thus. Limited Edition. Rare. A lovely Signed First Edition set of these rare and fascinating books, with the charming illustrations of Alexander King, who signed this set. Published nearly 80 years ago, these books have long been out of print and are quite rare, as sets sell for between $300 and more than $500, but this set is in excellent condition, without any damage and with almost no wear to the books. . Such a nice original Signed First Editions Club set is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. NOTE: I am listing a large collection of 100 fine Limited Editions Club books and sets of books on ebay this week. All of these books are in excellent condition and they come from an original subscriber. Please take a look at my other listings. From the Colophon: "This edition of The Brothers Karamazov consists of fifteen hundred copies printed for members of The Limited Editions Club by D. B. Updike The Merrymount Press, Boston with illustrations by Alexander King. This is copy number 444 and it is signed by [Alexander King]" From the Introduction: "Of the nineteenth century novelists, none have worn so well as the Russians, but whereas the passage of time has given Turgenev a slightly old-fashioned air, and has neither subtracted from nor yet added to the excellences of Tolstoy, it has only served to birng out the profundity and imaginative power of Dosterovsky's work. Within the last two or three decades his reputation has climbed to dizzying heights. For one thing, the malaise thorugh which our civilization is passing has brought us closer to a man who, we must admit, foresaw pretty clearly the progress of our spiritual disease, even though he would have medicined us with a religion which we cannot swallow. Further, a better and more widely diffused knowledge of metanl processes has made this generation more appreciative of the first novelist to have such an astonishing insight into human motives and into all the contradictions and confusions of the mind. His present extraordinary vogue may suffer an eclipse abroad, for causes not necessarily the same as those that have weakened his influence at home, where both his convictions and his perplexities are out of harmony with the practical temper of the times. Yet his greatness as a novelist is one of the few certainties in an uncertain world. Dostoevsky's crowning achievement was "The Brothers Karamzov." Few novels of any time and any country have been so heartily praised in our own day, and by connoisseurs so diverse. Marcel Proust, himself a master builder in the field of fiction, allowed it a mysterious beauty, a sculptural grandeur. Arnold Bennet classed it as "one of the supreme marvels of the world." Sigmund Freud, who brings to his judgement of literature the acument of a pioneer psychologist does not hesitate to call it "the most magnificent novel ever written." Translated into practically ever civilized language, broadcast in inexpensive editions, the book is finding its way to a widening circle of readers. And yet, though it carries the thrills of a detective story, the elemtnary interest of melodrama and romance, the persuasiveness of realistic fiction, it will always be, to some degree, caviar to the general. Its psychological subtleties, it passionate philosophizing, will inevitably limit its deepest appeal to the mature and the discriminating. "The Brothers Karamazov" was at once the culmination and the close of Dostoevsky's career: when he put finis to it, in November, 1880, he had only two months to live He had been occupied with the actual... read more

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