TOLSTOY (Count Leon). My Religion. Paris: Fischbacher Bookstore, 1885. One...
TOLSTOY (Count Leon). My Religion. Paris: Fischbacher Bookstore, 1885. One in-8 volume, in period brown half-shagreen. Slight rubbing; interior fresh, no foxing.
A rare first French edition in which Tolstoy describes his spiritual conversion and his personal interpretation of the Gospels, particularly the Sermon on the Mount. Upon its publication in 1884, the work was immediately banned in Russia by the imperial censors.
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TOLSTOY (Count Leon). My Religion. Paris: Fischbacher Bookstore, 1885. One in-8 volume, in period brown half-shagreen. Slight rubbing; interior fresh, no foxing.
A rare first French edition in which Tolstoy describes his spiritual conversion and his personal interpretation of the Gospels, particularly the Sermon on the Mount. Upon its publication in 1884, the work was immediately banned in Russia by the imperial censors.
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