Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth.

TOLSTOI, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy].

Item Number: 124033

London: Vizetelly & Co., 1888.

First English edition of Tolstoy’s complete autobiographical trilogy, first published in New York in 1886. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. In near fine condition. Scarce.

Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, first published in three volumes as Detstvo (1852), Otrochestvo (1854) and Yunost' (1856), was the work that first brought him literary fame. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, Detstvo [Childhood] was an immediate success and earned Tolstoy notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.