Fiction from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

New York: Pantheon 978-0-307-37769-2 [978-0-307-37769-2] 2010. (Hardcover) 513pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Notes. "In one of the most powerful epic novels of all time, Boris Pasternak has told the story of one man's youth, growth and maturity against the historic panorama of revolutionary Russia. And yet Doctor Zhivago is also something more… Read more

London: Folio Society 2000, 2nd printing. (4to in slipcase) 1016pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with black, white and gilt illustrations in near fine burgundy slipcase. Top edge stained red, frontispiece, illustrations. A small bump to the opening of the slipcase. "When Alexandre Dumas lay dying, exhausted after writing, as he claimed, 1,200… Read more

London: Folio Society 2005. (Hardcover) 483pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Illustrated covers. Map endpapers, photographic frontispiece, photographs, biographies, glossary. The spine is lightly cocked. Lacks slipcase. "You are sitting at a rough-hewn table. Opposite you is a man of indeterminate age, dressed in a ragged uniform. He has a controlled anger about him. He… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 978-0-307-95959-1 [978-0-307-95959-1] 2015, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 311pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Appendix, notes. "From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia". Also known as .… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 0-679-4213214-1 [0-679-4213214-1] 1994. (Hardcover) 733pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Top edge stained pink. The dust jacket is faded along the spine and lightly edgeworn. "Completed in 1872, Demons is rivaled only by the Brothers Karamazov for the place of Dostoevsky's greatest work. Richard Pevear and… Read more

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press [0-19-811404-4] 1968, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 374pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and crested spine. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes, index. The spine is lightly bumped at the bottom and the dust jacket is lightly faded along the spine. "The first… Read more

London: Quartet Books 0-704-3-2773-2 [0-704-3-2773-2] 1990. (Hardcover) 796pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Notes. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn at the top with a minor closed tear near the spine. "Dostoevsky's last, towering novel summed up his life and work. The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV has long been recognized as a zenith… Read more

New York: William Morrow and Company 1979. (Hardcover) 391pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn. "William Makepeace Thackeray was once so disgusted by an unduly fulsome biography he was reading that he threw away the volume and said to his daughters, 'Let… Read more

New York: Ecco [0-06-018870-7] 2003. (Hardcover) 940pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Notes. The spine lightly bumped at top and bottom. "Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [0-684-17946-6] 1983. (Hardcover) 368pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Color illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece and color illustrations. "Daniel Defoe's classic adventure tale of shipwreck and survival has enthralled generations of readers. For many of them the story is brought to satisfying completion by N. C. Wyeth's… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [0-374-10733-5] 1972, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 291pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket price-clipped and a previous owner's name inside. Edited with introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski. Translated by Denver Lindley. (Fiction, Autobiography, Writers).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [0-684-19589-5] 1993. (Small 4to) 344pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to the cover and spine. Color illustrations. "For more than five hundred years the Arabian classic Tales of a Thousand and One Nights has fascinated readers all over the world. Early… Read more

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 978-1-63149-033-0 [978-1-63149-033-0] 2018, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 604pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom. "Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [0-684-20731-1] 1965. (Small 4to) 343pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Top edge stained yellow, color illustrated plates. The dust jacket spine is faded, has a small chip, and an old price sticker on the back panel. "Of all the knights famous in song and story perhaps… Read more

London: Oxford University Press 1965. (Hardcover) 317pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt and red title to the spine. Bibliography, chronology, notes. The dust jacket is faded, edgeworn and lightly wrinkled, a tape stain on the half-title page, and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper and… Read more

London: Oxford University Press [0-19-255331-3] 1970. (Hardcover) 351pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt and orange title to the spine. Bibliography, chronology, appendices, notes. The dust jacket is price-clipped and the spine of the dust jacket is lightly sunned. "In the prime of his creative life William Godwin… Read more

London: Oxford University Press 1966. (Hardcover) 375pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Red cloth with brown and gilt title to the spine. Map, bibliography, chronology, notes. The covers are lightly worn at the corners and spine. "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is Smollett's final and best novel, long distinguished as being among the… Read more

London: Jonathan Cape 1957, later edition. (Hardcover set) multiple. Very good in very good dust jacket. Seven volumes in pale green-gray cloth. The dust jackets are edgeworn, rubbed and price-clipped and there is a previous owner's book plate and pencil notation on the front endpapers. "Many of us can remember the revelation of poetical power… Read more

London: Oxford University Press 1969. (Hardcover) 436pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt and navy title to the spine. Frontispiece, bibliography, chronology, notes. The corners are lightly bumped, a price sticker on the front flap of the dust jacket and minor, light, notation throughout the text. "The… Read more

London: Oxford University Press 1964. (Hardcover) 333pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt and red lettering to the spine. Bibliography, chronology, notes. The dust jacket is faded along the spine, there is a small chip to the top of the front panel, and there is a 1964 postage… Read more