[CRIME FICTION IN SOVIET SAMIZDAT] Small collection of American, English and French crime fiction in Soviet samizdat editions, ca. 1975?1985

Carter Brown, Agatha Christie, Adam Saint-Moore and Rex Stout

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[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1975?85. Small folios (19?21 ? 14?15 cm. each). Original cloth and patterned buckram bindings; [3], 212, [1]; [3], 143; [3], 216, [1]; 20, [1], 14, [1] 17, [2], 52, [1], 20, [2], 19, [3], 15, [2], 14, [2], 12, [2], 12, [2], 14, [2], 14, [2], 12, [4], 14; [3], 160; [3], 194; and [2], 198 pp. One volume (A. Christie) original typescript and carbon copy typescript; the other volumes xeroxed typescript. About very good. A group of six detective novels and one volume of short stories in Russian translation, illegally published and circulated in samizdat form, presumably in the mid to late 1970s. With the exception of the volume of Agatha Christie stories, which is a compilation of original and carbon copy typescripts, possibly from various contributors, they consist of xerox-copied typescript, which has been resized and amateur-bound. One of the volumes is identified as having been published in Kazan' in 1975, though the rest feature no indication of places of production. Contents: Carter Brown, "Ne ortodoksal'nyi trup: roman" , Carter Brown, "Zhena na voskresen'e" (Kazan', 1975), Carter Brown, "Ubiistvo - zavtra: roman" , Agatha Christie, collection of fourteen short stories; Adam Saint-Moore, "Pokhishchenie: roman", Adam Saint-Moore, "Fasanzh i mumiia blondinki" , and Rex Stout, "Gremuchaia zmeia: roman." While none of the authors gathered here were explicitly prohibited from publication, they would have been published selectively. Wholesale interest in Anglo-American crime fiction would have been considered trivial and not consistent with the cultural outlook of a Soviet citizen.

Seller Inventory # P003159

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [CRIME FICTION IN SOVIET SAMIZDAT] Small collection of American, English and French crime fiction in Soviet samizdat editions, ca. 1975?1985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Russia and Eastern Europe
  • Literature
  • Unofficial & Underground
  • Banned and Confiscated
  • Samizdat