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Tolstoy, Leo FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH OF WAR AND PEACE, ANNA KARENINA AND THE COSSACKS: War and Peace. A historical novel by Count Léon Tolstoï translated into French by a Russian lady and from the French by Clara Bell. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886, 12mo (156 x 110mm.), 3 parts in 6 volumes, first edition in English, publisher's brown pictorial cloth, covers blocked in black and gilt, spines lettered in gilt, bookplate of the Library of the San Francisco College for Woman (gift of the Parrott family), [Sadleir 3192], spines bumped at head and foot; Anna Karénina. By Count Lyof N.Tolstoï. In eight parts. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell & Co., 1886, 8vo (190 x 123mm.), first edition in English, 4 pages of advertisements at end, original brown cloth, covers and spine lettered in gilt, owner's signature in pencil on front free endpapers, corners bumped, spine bumped at head and foot; The Cossacks: a tale of the Caucasus in 1852...translated from the Russian by Eugene Schuyler. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878, first edition in English, original aubergine diagonal fine-ribbed cloth, covers blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, [Wolff 6731], slight wear and neat repairs to spines (9)