8vo. 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities spotted, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Leaves browned.

A rare survival of an early (if not the first) abridged edition, edited by journalist William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), of a translation of Leo Tolstoy's (1828-1910) Sevastopol Sketches, three short stories first published in 1855 as a record of his experiences during the siege of the city during the Crimean War that would form the foundation of his magnum opus, War and Peace (1865-67); number 43 in the "Review of Review's" Masterpiece Library, Penny Popular Novels series.

OCLC records copies at three locations (Indiana, NLS, and Texas); COPAC adds no further.