Auction Name: 2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 45187

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Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. A Historical Novel. By Léon Tolstoï. Translated into French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell. New York: William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 1887.

6 volumes, 8vo. Advertisements in both volumes of "Before Tilsit," volume II of "The Invasion," and volume I of "Borodino, the French at Moscow, Epilogue." Publisher's decorated brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later issue. The 1886 edition from the same publisher was the first edition of War and Peace in English, translated from the French by Clara Bell from a French version prepared by "a Russian lady." This 1887 issue was printed from the same setting of type.

Condition: Spines slightly leaned and spine ends pushed; vol. II of "The Invasion" with boards slightly warped and bent, and some wrinkling to cloth; other minor edgewear and a few corners bumped; a few scattered stains and light scuffing; a few hinges tender; ink ownerships in a few volumes with quotes.

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