Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) The Friend of the Family; and The Gambler, first edition in English, 1887.

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) The Friend of the Family; and The Gambler, first edition in English, half-title with advertisement to verso, 2pp. advertisements at rear, short tear to rear endpaper, joints starting but holding firm, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine rubbed and darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, small splash mark to upper cover, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Vizetelly & Co., 1887.

⁂ The rare first English edition of Dostoevsky's darkly comic novel The Gambler written when the author himself was deeply in debt due to his gambling addiction. We can trace only one other copy of this edition at auction.