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Tolstoy, Alexei.
Road to Calvary.
Publisher: Hutchinson, London;
Date of Publication: 1941
Stock Code: 8312
FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. [2], 680. Publishers’ black cloth with titles to silver panel to spine, in price-clipped blue dust-jacket. Errata slip bound-in. Spine tips rubbed and lower board slightly stained; ownership inscription to ffep. Text-block edge very lightly foxed. Jacket surface soiled to rear white panel, with nicks & creases to edge and very minor loss to spine tips. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Translated by Edith Bone. Tolstoy began work on this novel in 1919 and finished it in 1941; part was published in 1935 under the title Darkness and Dawn, since when Tolstoy wrote the final part and revised and largely rewrote the entire work, over half of which appears here in English for the first time. £85.00