Olyesha (14 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lightly bumped at the spine tips. Otherwise bright and crisp with no markings. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is a little sunned along the spine with a few water spots there.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 230 pages. Ex-university library book, light wear, sunning to the spine and cover edges, pages toned;a good sound binding. No jacket. Contents are Love, Envy, the Journal of an Author, Liompa, At the Circus, Human Material, the Cherry Stone, The Bicycle Chain, The Prophet, Aldebaran. Translated by Robert Payne. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; Inventory No: 210052.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). First Edition. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, & marks. Dust jacket flaps taped to end papers and binding. Tape stains on top and bottom edges of ffep and bfep. Else textblock is clean and tight. Light purple end papers. Faded blue top page edges, library stamped bottom page edges. Tape on top and bottom edges of front and back, usual character wear. Unclipped dust jacket, lightly edge-worn; 230p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth w/gilt lettering. Mild wear head and heel of spine. Text is clean, tight, bright, no marks, appears unread. Unclipped DJ was nibbled by silverfish neatly along both edges of spine. This nibbling does NOT translate to book. Very mild soil to rear cover. Translated and with an introduction by Robert Payne. "Enchanting and sensitive stories by one of Russia's leading post-revolutionary writers." (from the cover blurb).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Compilation Edition. 774 pages; Smudges to exterior edge of pages, minor. Yellowing (light) to pages. Minor rubbing to covers and edges. No markings or major defects.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Translated and with an introduction by Robert Payne. Splash mark on bottom edge and rear board, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good in a slightly edgeworn good only dust jacket with a corresponding 4 ½" stain mainly on the rear panel, light soiling and some tanning.

Condition: Good. Softcover.Very Good condition. Clear Text. Softcover. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Gently used. Modest show of wear. Previous owner name inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. 230pp. Translated with an introduction by Robert Payne. Price mark with light foxing to the foredges, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light rubbing, a sunned spine, and light wear along the extremities.

Translated, and with an introduction by Robert Payne. xxiii, 230p., dj.

17x11. 224 pags. Edición bilingüe ruso, inglés.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40037448: 1966. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 223 pages. Textes en anglais et russe en regard (russian and english). . . . Classification Dewey : 491.7-Langue russe.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first UK edition of Yury Olesha's best known work, a satirical novel about a man who refuses to accept communist values, translated and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The first UK edition, translated by Anthony Wolfe. Originally published in a Soviet literary magazine in 1927. Also known under the title 'Zavist'. Most copies were pulped and pleasing copies like this are scarce.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece.This volume features Yury Olesha's best known work, with this edition being translated by Anthony Woolf. This novel follows a young man named Nikolai Kavalerov who refuses to accept communist beliefs, and begins to feel envy for a model Soviet citizen.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally sound with fading to the spine, marks to the boards, and light damp stains to the spine. Internally firmly bound with clean and lightly age toned pages. Very Good. book.

First edition. Translated from the Russian by Anthony Wolfe. Octavo. 275 pages. Frontispiece.Two nicks repaired at top edge of front free endpaper. Spine faded. Very good. No dustwrapper. Among the scarcest of the Hogarth Press titles: out of the 1790 copies printed only about 600 escaped pulping.