first edition
by Published in 1898, the Same Year as the First English Edition in Book Form -- The First Book by Wells Published in Russia
Borba mirov [The War of The Worlds]
Large octavo, 7 x 9.5 inches, 91 pages; covers worn, stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page, pages toned and brittle, one leaf detached but present.
Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury, where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later in 1898 this translation was published by Novyi Zhurnal in a smaller, more conventional book format. At the end of 1898 a different translation was published in a different periodical and then in book format. WorldCat locates this translation only in the smaller format, (truncated)
Large octavo, 7 x 9.5 inches, 91 pages; covers worn, stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page, pages toned and brittle, one leaf detached but present.
Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury, where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later in 1898 this translation was published by Novyi Zhurnal in a smaller, more conventional book format. At the end of 1898 a different translation was published in a different periodical and then in book format. WorldCat locates this translation only in the smaller format, (truncated)