first edition , marginal age-toning and spotting, contemporary sheep-backed boards, rubbed at corners and edges, [Kilgour 284], 8vo , [ St Petersburg , 1876]. Dostoevsky's "diary" for the year 1876, a collection of non-fiction and fictional writings taken from pieces written for a periodical which he founded and produced. This volume includes the chapters: 'In Place of a Foreword. On the Great and Small Bears, on Great Goethe's Prayer, and, Generally, on Bad Habits', 'The Russian Society for the Protection of Animals. The Government Courier. Demon-Vodka. The Itch for Debauch and Vorobev. From the End or from the Beginning?', 'My Paradox', 'The Utopian Conception of History' and 'Land & Children'.