TROYAT, HENRI — Tolstoy

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Hardcover. A later printing of Henri Troyat's monumental biography of Leo Tolstoy. Mr. Tolstoy has been described as a ".literary giant but also as a gargantuan enigma." Rendered into English from the French by Nancy Amphoux. With 24 black and white photos depicting scenes from Tolstoy's life, including frontis photographic portrait of Tolstoy at the time of the writing of "War and Peace." Back matter includes biographical notes, endnotes, bibliography and index. --- In full burnt orange cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A sound, tightly-bound copy but with prior owner's rubberstamping to front paste-down, otherwise unmarked.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vi, 792 pages. Very Good+ in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .