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Limited Editions Club. Very Good+. 1948. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set. Quarter black cloth covers with red cloth boards are sunned on spines with just a hint of modest soiling to boards but overall in very good+ condition. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet of volume one (Lt. Col. And Mrs. Edward Kraus, Washington DC, 28 Sept. 1948). Brief note in margin on one page otherwise pages are clean and very good. This is copy number 18 of a limited edition of only 1500 and signed by illustrator. Lacking slipcase. ; Signed by Illustrator .

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal 'The Russian Messenger' in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. 'Crime and Punishment' is considered the first great novel of his 'mature' period of writing.