A Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky First Harrison of Paris edition 1931

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. A Gentle Spirit. A Fantastic Story. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. With frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Berard. Paris and New York: Harrison of Paris and Minton, Balch and Company, 1931.
 
Limited edition, number 101 of 495 copies on Satinized paper, from a total edition which also included 50 copies on Iridescent Imperial Japan vellum and 25 copies not for sale. Tall octavo. With frontispiece and tailpiece by Christian Berard. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with the original clear acetate dust wrapper, housed in the original labelled slipcase.
 
A fine copy, essentially as new, in the original acetate wrapper. The slipcase is very good, with only light wear and a little rubbing to the extremities.
 
This was the eighth publication of Harrison of Paris, the short-lived fine press founded by Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott. The book was designed by Wheeler, hand-set in 10-point Stempel-Baskerville and printed by L. C. Wittich at Darmstadt in September 1931.
 
Dostoevsky's late novella, first published in 1876 and also known in English as A Gentle Creature or The Meek One, is presented here in Constance Garnett's translation in one of Harrison of Paris's characteristically elegant limited editions, combining literary text, contemporary illustration and fine typography.