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First English edition, first printing without date to copyright page (Seymour), in the more common cloth binding. One of only 10,000 first printings. Book is good to very good with wear commensurate with age and materials. Wear most notable at head and foot of spine, bumped pages to block edge. Ultimately, a more affordable copy of this increasingly scarce first edition. Red cloth covers with first state gilt design, 308 pages, Reginald Knowles endpapers. 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.