Assignment in Utopia

658 pages, indexed. The book's printer's imprint states it is a first edition (fifth impression), presumably first British edition, as 1937 is the commonly offered date for the first American one. The jacket is chipped at the edges, which also duffer from closed tears; there is minor loss to the head and tail; a very small section between pp 341 to 384 are bumped towards the head; the pages are lightly tanned. Else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "Eugene Lyons (July 1, 1898 – January 7, 1985), born Yevgeny Natanovich Privin ), was a Russian-born American journalist and writer. A fellow traveler of Communism in his younger years, Lyons became highly critical of the Soviet Union after several years there as a correspondent of United Press International. Lyons also wrote a biography of President Herbert Hoover." (wikipedia).