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First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the rare first state quarter pigskin binding. This binding is the rarest issue of this title. Terry Seymour predicts that only about 2% of all titles from Dent received this treatment. Given the print run of 10,000 and 2000 for sale in America (unbound), this means that the number of copies issued as such would cap around 160. Book is very near fine, showing miraculously little wear, only some lightening to spine. A copy for the most discerning collector. Brown cloth covers backed by pigskin spine, gilt titles, publisher brown protective block stain to block edges, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers not included in this binding style, instead we find a plain, woven-like endpaper. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Notes from Underground is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that presents the interior monologue of a man living in St. Petersburg, Russia. The protagonist, often referred to as the underground man, retreats into a self-imposed isolation from society and articulates his world views through a series of contradictory and complex thoughts and ideas. The work is split into two parts, with the first titled 'Underground' and the second, 'A Propos of the Wet Snow.' It is often regarded as one of the first existentialist novels.