[BEST WORK OF JOURNALISM WRITTEN IN THE 19th CENTURY] Ostrov Sakhalin. Iz putevykh zametok [i.e. Sakhalin Island. From the Travel Notes]
Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev, 1895. [4], III, 520 pp. 19,5x14 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Gilt lettering on the spine. Minor restoration of the spine otherwise a very good copy. The first edition of the famous Anton Chekhov’s (1860-1904) travel diaries. Chekhov was sending his notes to the periodical ‘Russkaya Mysl’..... More