Russian Author (87 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Poor. 101 pp. Heavily used book in poor quality. Creased front cover. Stains on inside of front cover and first end page. Cuts on front cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. 101 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 447 pp. In good condition considering its age. Some fraying and signs of shelf wear along the book edges. First couple pages are becoming detached from the spine, which is creased. Back cover is creased with a rip at the top.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing: 1963. 158 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Mildly or minimally shelf worn. Minimal, light or very mild discoloration/browning/tanning or foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Water warpage on back cover. Slightly creased front cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Jeanyee Wong (Cover Design) (illustrator). 398 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Stain on bottom edge. Creased spine. Discoloration of cover. Slight foxing on page edges.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. George Salter (Cover Design) (illustrator). 1st Vintage Edition. 418 pp. Solidly bound copy with crisp pages and clean text. Some light foxing on the edges, and the back cover shows fraying.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Missing. 554 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages. Pen Markings throughout book. Previous owner's name on inside of first front end page. Spine is foxed and has minor cuts.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Published in Penguin Books: 1995. 85 pp. An ex-libris copy! Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Mildly shellf worn.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pat Voehl (Cover Design) (illustrator). 1st Perennial Library Edition Published: 81 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Moderate foxing on page edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. 873 pp. Well bound copy with heavy to extensive overall wear and use. Copy with clean text and unmarked pages. Cover worn and spine creased and cocked. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 576 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Creased spine. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text. Occasional highlighter markings on text. Minor tearing on spine.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. Karl W. Stuecklen (Drawings) (illustrator). 622 pp. Crisp, unmarked pages. Solid binding. Dj worn; price cut out from front flap.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Revised Edition/Penguin Classics: 1978. 852 pp. A great and perfectly acceptable study or work or reading or research copy! Great copy with tight binding, crisp pages and clean text. Some dog-eared pages. Previous owner's short story written on last few free back end pages with text unaffected. Well read book with repaired front cover page. Cover and spine creased. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 559 + xiv pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Smooth cover. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 32nd Printing. 559 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Solidly bound copy with smooth covers. Relevant notes included from previous owner. Occassional pen markings on text.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. Crest T1287. First Edition, First Printing. Text/New w/faint margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/edge & corner tips rubs, faint creasings to spine & surface, and light soiling to back. Leading text edges dyed red. Originally published in Russian, 1928 under the title "Korol', Dama, Valet". Written when Nabokov was 28 years old, this edition was translated into English by the author's son, Dimitri in 1966 with revisions by author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. illustrated by author (illustrator). KPC 039819 This stapled softcover has an elephant on the front cover and 7 other animals on the back cover. Within the format is a two page spread, with at least two illustrations of an animal, accompanied by some text about the animals. The beautiful earth tones characteristic of Progress Publishers children's books. The covers have overall light soiling, front top is dogeared, and there is scuffing and some missing chips along edges. Tape has been applied along bottom spine and edge of bottom of front cover. Still very usable children's book.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. V. Ilyushchenko (Designer) (illustrator). 3rd Printing 1974. 410 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Importer sticker on back cover board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. J.S. Roberts (Design) (illustrator). İ 1988. 502 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Relevant newspaper article included from previous owner. Dust jacket suffers moderate to extensive wear, with a few cuts and tears around edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frederick Charles (Cover Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 660 pp. Stated first edition! Part I-II issue only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Occasional pencil/pen markings on text. Back cover page top corner chipped. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: In "The Destructive-Labor Camps," the first part of this volume, we experience the terrible plight of the working prisoners, the cruelty and caprice of camp authorities, and the tragic fate of the women prisoners and the luckless children born to them. This chronicle of inhumanity is made bearable by the vitality and emotional range of Solzhenitsyn's writing that make his work on the "Archipelago" of Soviet repression one of the extraordinary literary events of our age. Translated into English from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a Gulag labor camp. Written between 1958 and 1968 (dates given at the end of the book) it was published in the West in 1973, thereafter circulating in samizdat (underground publication) form in the Soviet Union until its official publication in 1989.

First American edition, 1963, by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. (No ISBN as issued & no printing number.) Translated by Michael Scammell, with a Foreword by the author. Black cloth boards w/gilt-stamped lettering on spine, No Jacket, very little shelfwear (slight nigh-invisible blemish on front), in GOOD condition. Near-pristine hardcover, unread & unmarked, w/sharp corners & crisp deckle edges, tight binding, cleanly aged pages, top page edge orange tint, all quite presentable for a 63-year-old volume. "THE GIFT is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like THE GIFT itself." [publisher copy] "A fascinating lesson in the truly staggering number of possible ways of writing and seeing."--Kirkus Reviews.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 248 pages. 9.45x7.40x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. 196 pp. Text in French. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tom McKeveny (Design); Lady Elizabeth Butler (Cover Painting) (illustrator). İ 1985. 574 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Corners retaped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English Edition (NAP). This book is being offered at a significant discount due to one significant condition issue, the erosive loss on the half-title page (see photo). There is also one tiny spot of loss on the facing 'by Vladimir Nabokov' page. After that, the pages are in excellent condition, the issue does not recur anywhere. You can see the black covers in the photos. While there are no stains, there are some areas with a light whitish hue. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The spine ends have only mild crinkling. The cover edges are in very good shape, no rubbing. The same goes for the cover corners. The page edges look very good. The top page edge has a light orange tint. The middle page edge is deckled or rough-cut. They did a good job. The inside covers and end papers are mustard-colored. They're perfectly clean. The pages also appear to be perfectly clean. I have scrolled through them a number of times without finding any instances of soiling. I'm also not finding any creasing. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. I have detected a very slight musty odor. I'm a bit sensitive to that. The dust jacket is in very nice condition. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. There isn't any conspicuous soiling. I don't see any tears. The flaps are in excellent condition, clean, no tears or creases. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. 'The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published in serial form in 1938 under his pen name, Vladimir Sirin. The Gift's fourth chapter, a pseudo-biography of the Russian writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky, was censored from publication in the Russian émigré journal Sovremennye zapiski that published the book's four other chapters. The Gift is considered by some 'the most original, unusual and interesting piece of prose writing or of Russian emigre writing.' Also the most 'difficult' of Nabokov's Russian novels.'.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Paul Perlow (Cover Design) (illustrator). 1st Harper Colophon Bks Ed: 1983/1st Pr. 374 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

First Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Physical description; 338 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; "Biographical appendix": p. [335]-338. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953). Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich (1894-1971). Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich (1894-1971). Stalin, Joseph. Communism History. Communist parties History. Communism History. Communist parties History. Communism History 20th century. Soviet Union Politics and government (1953-1975). Communism. 3 Kg.

Hard cover. HCDJ1ST, 2000. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPIES. Very good in very good dust jacket. 1 300 p. Very good in very good dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPIES.

Condition: Very good. - A black-and-white portrait after a photograph of Gorki on a postcard 5-3/8 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, with his name printed in the bottom margin in Russian and English. A half-length portrait of the author wearing an overcoat and holding a cane. Very good.