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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by Self published, 1986
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 493 pages. Light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; very good otherwise. No jacket. Translated from the Russian by Alison Rice. Soviet Union/USSR. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 199656.
Published by Self published, 1986
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 493 pages. Light discoloring and wear; scratch on the back cover; a sound binding; very good otherwise. No jacket. Translated from the Russian by Alison Rice. Soviet Union/USSR. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 199657.
Published by Yuri Vetohkin, 1986
Seller: Gavin's Books, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Drawings by Jenny Morton and the author. Signed by Yuri Vetohkin on ffep; scuffing to tight-fitting dust jacket, yellowing to book block, else fine. Signed By Author.
Published by Privately Published, 1984
Seller: Worn Bookworm, SAN MARCOS, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jenny Morton (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Fine. Very Good in Mylar Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Story of the author's attempts, finally successful, to escape from one of Russia's psychiatric prisons. Signed by the author on the front fly. 493 pgs. Tight, unflawed copy in DJ with minor edgewear. Signed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2ND RUSSIAN EDITION,HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD-PLUS,INSRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardcover in very good condition with very good dust jacket. english translation.
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. Second Russian Edition. Privately Printed. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Alison Rice. Signed by Author.
Hard cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (owner blind stamp) in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Published by Yuri Vetohkin, San Diego, 1984
Seller: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Second Russian Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 493. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Yuri Vetokhin, a former computer programmer from Leningrad, escaped to Indonesia from a Soviet cruise ship in December 1979. Of which thia is an account of his escape (as well as of two previous, failed, escape attempts on the Black Sea) in his memoir. In his study of defections from the Soviet Union, Vladislav Krasnov mentions a similar escapes from a Soviet cruise ship on a "cruise to nowhere" in the Southwestern Pacific. An unnamed member of the biology faculty at Moscow University, who was 26 at the time, escaped from another Soviet cruise liner (MV Rus) off the Philippines, in a rubber raft. He was picked by Filipino fishermen. In exceptionally good condition.
Published by Self published., np., 1986
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Hard cover. Second Russian edition. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. True tale of an escapee from a Soviet psychiatric prison reveals the torture & other horrors endured by political prisoners. Orig. published in Russia in 1983, with a Second edition in 1984, this is the First English-language/American Edition from 1986, SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his name only) on ffep. Self-published. With navy blue cloth-covered boards & gilt lettering to front & spine, this hardcover boo is in Fine condition: completely clean & tightly bound, pages white, NO foxing or tanning. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. The unclipped DJ is Near Fine, with a tiny amount of edgewear along bottom. Bright & colorful, no fading; beautifully protected in new mylar cover.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific) ship very same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Self published., np., 1986
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Hard cover. Second Russian edition. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Published by np., np., 1986
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Second edition. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 493 pps.
Published by Yuri Vetohkin, 1984
Seller: Dr.Bookman - Books Packaged in Cardboard, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. This specific hardback book is in very good condition with some minor wear to the cover or edges and corners but with a hard board cover that has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased except for the inscription and signature on the first blank end page. The dust jacket is in very good condition with some cover or edge wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "In this book, the author tells the world the truth about the inconceivable torture political prisoners endure in the Soviet psychiatric prisons which are located not far from tourist resorts where foreigners enjoy champagne and black caviar and are falsely assured of "the success of Socialism in one country." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 493 pages.
Published by Self Published, 1986
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Warmly inscribed by author on the ffep. DJ in archival cover. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Presumed self-published, n.p., 1986
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jenny Morton and Yuri Vetohkin (Drawings) (illustrator). vii, [1], 493, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Reference page. Table of Contents (at back). DJ has wear and soiling. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. Author attempted to escape from the Soviet Union three times, successful on the third attempt. Also an account of the torture that political prisoners endured in the Soviet psychiatric prisons. Vetohkin made his first attempt to leave when he tried to swim the Black Sea from a small town on the Soviet border to neighboring Turkey. Though he swam all night, he could not overcome the swift current and failed. In 1967, he again tried, this time from a small village near Yalta, about 180 miles from the border. Again, he swam all night, but in the morning, he was discovered and arrested. A yearlong investigation by the KGB followed this arrest. He was sent to Moscow for a "psychiatric" (that is, political) examination, then shipped to the camp in the Ukraine for "re-education." There, he spent "nine years in a small cell. . They tried to change political opinions with drugs." In 1979, when he was 52, he bought a ticket for a cruise called "From Winter to Summer." The ticket cost 480 rubles - eight months' salary - so he picked wild mushrooms in the forest and sold them at a farmer's market in Leningrad to help pay for the ticket. The boat traveled from Vladivostok to the equator. "There were no stops, no entry at foreign ports. When the ship was by the equator, I jumped from a porthole into the ocean. I found my way by the stars. I swam to Indonesia. I swam 30 miles. I swam night and day." Vetohkin said he met "wild animals," but was not bothered. An Orthodox Christian, he said he prayed. He was picked up by four men, who took him to a village from which he made his way to Jakarta. There, a meeting was arranged with Soviet officials who tried to persuade him to return home and guaranteed him there would be no problems if he returned. After that, he met with U.S. Embassy officials, received political asylum, and eventually came to California. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing.