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« on: March 31, 2004, 07:41:26 PM »
Just a recommendation if anyone is looking for good reading copies of Dostoevsky. On Ebay you can buy the old Heritage Press editions. They aren't really collectible, so they should not cost more than $10. They have cool illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. I did a quick search and found some images of these. I bought the HP "Crime and Punishment" and it makes me want to read it over again.

http://www.greenbaumprints.com/EICHENBERG/books/index.htm
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2004, 08:00:43 PM »
speaking of collectible books, I have one, excellent edition of TBK. It is a Garnett translation from Heritige press...I bought it for $2.50 at the buggest used book sale in the nation, that just happens to be right around the block to where I live each year  Grin

Anyways, I saw the same book at a used book store, retail at $65....

I'll take a few pictures of it and post...
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2004, 08:30:37 PM »
OK, I have uploaded some pictures of the book. In the last post I forgot to mention that the book, in size, is about the asme as a standard sheet of paper (8.5x11 inches) - so quite big. The lithographs are done by Fritz Eichenberg, and are also pretty entertaining. The book was published in 1961....

sorry about the quality of the pics....I really did this on the fly

the spine (as you can see it has a protective, original cover


cover of the book itself....
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2004, 08:31:35 PM »
EDIT:: for some reason I cannot display the other pictures so I will just provide the urls to them....Fyodor is there a limit on the amount of pictures you could link to?

title page... (I had to darken this a lot so that the letters would be visible.)
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2251832&size=lg

one of the lithographs...
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2251826&size=lg
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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2004, 09:23:29 AM »
Quote from: axon on March 31, 2004, 08:31:35 PM
EDIT:: for some reason I cannot display the other pictures so I will just provide the urls to them....Fyodor is there a limit on the amount of pictures you could link to?

axon, can you post them today?  Try it out....I'm not sure if there's a picture limit or not.  Maybe there's just a daily limit to how many you can post - I'll look into it.
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2004, 09:26:35 AM »
Nice pictures guys!
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2004, 08:43:07 AM »
Can't beat those used book sales. I really like the illustrations. axon, could you tell me the artist who did the cover (the portrait of Dostoevsky)? I seem to remember a Poe book that had illustrations in an identical style.
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2004, 11:57:51 AM »
>>axon, could you tell me the artist who did the cover

I believe it is the same artist who did the other prints, as the book doesn't state otherwise - Fritz Eichenberg.

The portrait is really good, actually. Notice that D is sitting below Christ on a cross - you could actually only see the nailed feet....
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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2004, 01:38:50 PM »
A lot of these illustrations are used in The Gospel in Dostoyevsky...very nice drawings.  I love the picture of the convict before his execution...staring into a cross - deciding what to believe in right before he dies...(inspired from the execution as explained in The Idiot).

Maybe I'll scan these all in and put them in the Pictures section on the site.  I'm just so swamped with web work right now that I really shouldn't even be on the forum today!  Wink
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« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2004, 09:08:14 AM »
Quote from: Worm on April 18, 2004, 01:55:43 PM
Small-minded people ... their heads are too small to grasp it all, so they label it as "crazy".  Just say you are too stupid and unknowing for it.

Small-minded indeed. Any picture of Fyodor examining his bruises should be self-explanatory to anyone with a good memory and shallow knowledge of Dostoevsky.  Wink
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