SELTZER, THOMAS (ED) — Best Russian Short Stories

NY: Boni & Liveright, 1917. 1st Edition. First Printing. Flexible cloth. Publisher's full green faux-leather, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, illustrated endpapers. Best Russian Short Stories, compiled and edited by Thomas Seltzer is a collection of short stories by great Russian authors. The collection includes: THE QUEEN OF SPADES by A.S. Pushkin; THE CLOAK by N.V. Gogol; THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by I.S. Turgenev; THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by F.M. Dostoyevsky; GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by L.N. Tolstoy; HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS by M.Y. Saltykov; THE SHADES, A PHANTASY by V.G. Korolenko; THE SIGNAL by V.N. Garshin; THE DARLING by A.P. Chekhov; THE BET by A.P. Chekhov; VANKA by A.P. Chekhov; HIDE AND SEEK by F.K. Sologub; DETHRONED by I.N. Potapenko; THE SERVANT by S.T. Semyonov; ONE AUTUMN NIGHT by M. Gorky; HER LOVER by M. Gorky; LAZARUS by L.N. Andreyev; THE REVOLUTIONIST by M.P. Artzybashev; and THE OUTRAGE by A.I. Kuprin.. Some pencilled check-marks in the Table of Contents, former owner's signature and date (Sept. 1925) on ffep, otherwise unmarked; pages browning but supple, else near fine. VERY GOOD.. Modern Library. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi, 261, (6-adverts) pages. Very Good in No DJ As Issued dust jacket .