Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Бесы [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons], 3 parts in 1, third edition, half-titles, ink ownership stamp to first half-title, scattered foxing, bookplate of Albert McGill to front pastedown, dark purple contemporary half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, light fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities, spine head a little chipped, large 8vo, St. Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 1882.

⁂ First posthumous edition, and the second edition in book form of Dostoevsky's most overtly political work, the first (1873) being the first published work by the Dostoevsky Publishing Company, founded by the author and his wife. Scarce, we can trace only one copy at auction.