Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky [Fjiodor Dostojewskij]; Alexander Eliasberg [trans.]
Title: Krotkaja
Description: Munich, Drei Masken Verlag, 1922 . Leather. A limited edition German language translation of Doestoevsky's tragic tale, signed by the illustrator, Willi Geiger. A German language edition of Dostoevsky's short story. Translated from the original Russian by Alexander Eliasberg.No. 103 of 250 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Willi Geiger.Illustrated with a vignette title page and eleven vignette etchings, all the work of German painter Willi Geiger, who was politically opposed to the Nazi Party. As a result, his artworks were deemed "degenerate" by the authorities.Collated, complete.A German language translation of Dostoevsky's 1876 short story, chronicleing the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read earlier in the same year about the suicide of a seamstress. In the publisher's original half morocco, paper covered boards. Significant rubbing to joints, with head of front joint starting, but board firmly held. Small loss of leather to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Willi Geiger. Good .

Keywords: Krotkaja A Gentle Creature The Meek One german A Gentle Creature Willi Geiger


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