TOLSTOY, LEO — Anna Karenina (Modern Library #37. 3)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1953]. Hardcover. A reprint edition of Leo Tolstoy's enduring tragic romance. Complete and unabridged in a standard-sized (but thick) Modern Library copy. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett and with an introduction by Tolstoy biographer Henri Troyat. Jacket features an illustration of Anna and suitor by Paul Galdone to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #37.3. --- A very nice copy: clean and tightly-bound, with inked gift info. to half title page. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with minor chafing to extremities, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in clear plastic covering, which has been semi-permanently taped to the book.; 12mo 7" to 7-1/2" tall; xviii, 950, [8, ads] pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .