Author: TOLSTOY, COUNT LEO; [TOLSTOI, LEO]
Title: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales (Everyman's Library #469)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1930. Hardcover. A 1930 reprint edition of the 1910 issuance. A collection of nineteen short stories by the great Russian author and social reformer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). The title story is the longest, and also probably the best known. Most of the tales were written in the author's later years. With an unattributed introduction. Entry 469 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' to front panel. --- With severe discoloration to cloth (turning it from red to a shade of orange) and rubberstamping to front free endpaper, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Jacket with numerous small white specks to front panel (which may be paint), a good-sized tear at front joint, otherwise mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xii, 320, 4 (ads) pages. Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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