Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Buried Alive Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia, first American edition, New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1881

Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Buried Alive Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia, translated by Marie von Thilo, first American edition, initial "Slips for Librarians" leaf, half-title, 2pp. advertisements at rear, short split to head of front free endpaper at inner margin, original pictorial cloth, slight toning to spine, spine tips a little bumped, extremities rubbed but a bright and excellent copy overall, 8vo, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1881.

*** An attractive copy of the first American edition of House of the Dead, the first work by Dostoevsky to be published in America and the only English translation to appear in his lifetime.