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First Edition in English (US edition); A Very Good to Near Fine book in a beautiful custom clamshell box. A stunning copy of this novel, considered to be one of the greatest works of literature in history; this is the 1886 edition published by Crowell in New York, also published in London using the same sheets, with no priority determined; the book was originally published in 1866 in Russian as a serial novel, then published as one volume in 1867, again in Russian. This is the first issue with the one page advertisement at the back with Crime and Punishment listed first at a price of $1.50. This copy is in very good to near fine condition with a square, tight binding and bright gold lettering over clean brown boards; the book does show some age spotting and light foxing to the page edges and pastedowns, a few scattered pencil marks throughout the text, a couple of small creases to the page corners where a reader marked their spot, and a small chip out of the top of a few pages, not…

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.