Notes on Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment

The first printing of the Crime and Punishment jacket has the misprint "DOSTOYEVKSY" (the second and third letters from the name's end reversed) on the front panel and spine of the dust jacket.

At least one print run of the second edition had a blank page 350. One collector reported his copy had the missing page laid in with the note "Missing page 350 in the Modern Library Edition of Crime and Punishment."

First copyright page text:    First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     7

First inverse DJ number:     200

Dates in print:     1932 [Jan] - 1950 (no intro)
                              1950 - 1975, 1978 - 1986(?) (both with Simmons intro)

Toledano number:   199.1 (no intro)
                                   199.2 (Simmons intro)

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?      yes

Introduction:     None in 1932; Ernest J. Simmons in 1950

Genre:     Novel

Curriculum:     19th Century Russian Literature

Original language:      Russian

Translator:     Constance Garnett

Thanks to:
Henry Toledano Darrell Johnson Barry Neavill
Joe Hill Fred Williams Kathleen Steigler

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