Future Comrade by Kosinski Jerzy (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by Irving R. Levine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Kosinski's first book, a nonfiction account of life in Russia during the Cold War. Very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket. Almost invisible dampstain at the bottom of the page block. The jacket has minor edgewear, and the red lettering on the spine is a little sun faded. Introduction by Irving R. Levine; 286 pages. $3.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book.

hardcover. No Jacket. First Edition. Garden City. 1960. Doubleday. 1st Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. 286 pages. hardcover. keywords: Politics. DESCRIPTION - A critique of the Soviet system, published under Jerzy Kosinski's pseudonym, this is the author's first book. inventory #5091 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing: no statement of edition. Hardback = Very Good to Near Fine in Very Good to Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Small sticker ghost on front pastedown and two 1/8" inch coffee-colored spots on fore edge barely affecting 16 leaves. Dust jacket has minor shelf-wear at extremities and minor scuffing. Pages clean and binding solid. Time Tested Books has been located in the same place and owned by the same people for over 20 years. We have an excellent rep. We also have tens of thousands of titles in stock and are an open shop, so when in the Sacramento area, please stop in.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1960. Bodley Head. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 255 pages. hardcover. keywords: Russia Sociology. DESCRIPTION - The author's first book, published pseudonymously as Joseph Novak. A critical look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. inventory #12634.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. PRICE CLIPPED. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition of Kosinski's first book (other than two works in Polish), and the first of two under the Novak pseudonym. Very good, solid copy, spine not cracked or creased. Inscribed by Kosinski on the first page. He first signed his name as Joseph Novak, drew beneath it what looks like a caricature of a bird (an allusion to The Painted Bird, perhaps), and then wrote the following over the rest of the page: "For Americe (?), with warmest regards, sincerely, Jerzy Kosinski Fall of 1987." This paperback edition is uncommon. Kosinski's reputation as a writer and his personal reputation as well came under a cloud in the years before his suicide in 1991. It is interesting that, in maligning him, his critics did not address the composition of the two Novak books, which only he, based as they were on his own experiences, could have written, and which are extremely effective pieces of writing. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Owner signature. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 255 pages. The author's first book. A look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. First British edition (first printing). Small stain to the bottom of the page block else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to one corner and a few short tears to the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First printing of the first UK edition, published in 1960. The author's first book, published pseudonymously as Joseph Novak. A critical look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners quite sharp - bottom corner of front board slightly creased. No reading creases to the spine and no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges lightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No internal foxing. ***Please note that one page (p.45/6) has been quite badly creased (please see scans). ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price-clipped. The dustwrapper is largely complete, but there is some loss at the head of the spine (not affecting the lettering). There are a couple of very small chips, to the top and bottom edges of the front panel, and the extremities are slightly rubbed and creased. No fading to the sun-sensitive red spine colour of the dustwrapper, and no browning. Dustwrapper bright. ***222mm x 145mm. 255 printed pages. ***'"The Future is Ours, Comrade" presents a new look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. No visitor from this side of the Iron Curtain has been able to return with a report as detailed and revealing as this - because a Westerner is not allowed to live among the Russian people as a Russian. Here is an intimate picture of the life of the Russian citizen, drawn from facts given in conversation by hundreds of people; a provocative, often surprising description of Russia as it really is today'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) "When I visited the mausoleum, entangled in the never-ending chain of waiting people, the silhouette of the St. Basil's Church with its unique and fantastic architecture loomed in front of me. At the right were the walls of the Kremlin. The comparatively low mausoleum was sheltered by them. White-coated militia-men formed a symmetrical line running round the vast spaces of Red Square and kept the waiting people in order. The square was deserted otherwise. Traffic was forbidden. The people moved very slowly. I looked at the faces around me. They represented all the races and nations which make up the U.S.S.R. Men, women, children, young people, old people waited patiently, staring around the big square". (Quote taken from the text p.45) ***Jerzy Kosi?ski (born Józef Lewinkopf) (June 14, 1933 - May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. Kosi?ski was born in 1933 as Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf in ?ód?, as the only child of Polish Jews Mieczys?aw (Moj?esz) Lewinkopf and El?bieta Liniecka. As a child during World War II, he lived in occupied central Poland under a false identity, Jerzy Kosi?ski, which his father gave him. He was known for various novels, among them "Being There" (1971) and "The Painted Bird" (1965), which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019 respectively. Kosi?ski's novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and have been translated into over 30 languages, with total sales estimated at 70 million in 1991.' (Wiki) ***The first UK edition, first printing of Jerzy Kosi?ski's first published work, published in 1960. The book was published under the pseudonym of Joseph Novak to protect the identity of the author. A very uncommon book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: VG++ Price-Clipped. First Edition. Previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is price clipped and show some creasing to front flap. Overall, a most acceptable first edition of this, Jerzy Kosinski's first book. Subtitled: "Conversations with the Russians". A bit of fading to the red type on the spine, but perfectly readable. 286 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Kozinski inscribed this book "To Bill [Bill Berg, his literary agent] - with sincere gratitude - J. New York, March 1960." The inscription is prefaced by the following quote from Dostoevsky in Kosinski's distinctive handwriting: ". God took seeds from different worlds and sowed them on this earth, and his garden grew up and everything came up that would come up only through the feeling of the contact with other mysterious worlds. If that feeling grows weak or is destroyed in you, the heavenly growth will die in you . Then you will be indifferent to life and will even grow to hate it." Red lettering on grey covers in a grey pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 286pp. This was te author's first book. The dust jacket spine ends are lightly chipped and there is a triangular 1/4" x 3/8" piece missing on the top front edge. A letter provided to me by the person who bought the book at a Stamford, CT auction gallery is included, as provenance, with the book. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Date on title page. Near fine, if not near fine plus or fine hardback in near fine, if not near fine plus dust jacket (T.F.I.O.: C.W.T.R. $3.95). Dust jacket has a 5/16 inch by 1/4 inch chip to top edge of front panel and trivial, if not barely noticeable fading to spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

First Edition. THE FUTURE IS OURS, COMRADE, Dutton, 1964, first paperback edition, vg in stiff wraps. The authors first book (and written under the Joseph Novak pseudonym). Inscribed by the author using his real name at time of publication utilizing a 5 line quote from Proust.

First Edition. HOW MY COMRADES LIVE in The Saturday Evening Post for May 14 thru May 28, 1960, first edition, 3 volumes complete, vg+ in wraps. The authors first book (published under the Joseph Novak pseudonym and later released in book form as THE FUTURE IS OURS, COMRADE).

1st edition. [2], 286 pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8" Kosinski, born in Poland, in the late '50s, migrated to the United States with few resources, but he received a Ford Foundation grant to enroll in the sociology graduate program at Columbia University in New York. While he was there he wrote two books about life in the Soviet Union, The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962), publishing them under the pseudonym of Joseph Novak and later giving conflicting explanations as to why he did so. The books depicted life under Communism in a negative light, and allegations, never corroborated, later suggested that they were financed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)." [Encyclopedia com]. VG (square & tight/backstrip a bit sunned)/VG (average wear/spine panel sunned & a bit faded). Grey linen cloth binding with red stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book from the author of the National Book Award winning "Steps." A tight and clean very near fine copy in a bright near fine price clipped dust jacket that has a few tiny edge tears and is somewhat faded on the spine. A nice copy of this debut work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR (illustrator). 1st Edition. hardcover in DJ protected by clear book jacket cover with 21S net price, first published in Great Britain 1960 as stated, no markings, chipping to rear top edge of DJ, code 3/345 on front inside DJ flap, 255 pages, dust tone to page decks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Fine in a near fine, lightly spotted, price-clipped dustwrapper. The author's uncommon pseudonymous first book.

1st edition. viii, [2], 359, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4" Kosinski, born in Poland, in the late '50s, migrated to the United States with few resources, but he received a Ford Foundation grant to enroll in the sociology graduate program at Columbia University in New York. While he was there he wrote two books about life in the Soviet Union, The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962), publishing them under the pseudonym of Joseph Novak and later giving conflicting explanations as to why he did so. The books depicted life under Communism in a negative light, and allegations, never corroborated, later suggested that they were financed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)." [Encyclopedia ⢠com]. VG+ (square & tight/usual age-toning to paper)/VG (average wear). Tomato-red cloth binding with black stamped spine lettering. Red dust jacket.

First Edition of Jerzy KosinskiĠs first book written under the pseudonym, Joseph Novak. Near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine copy in like price clipped jacket.Fragile jacket is unfaded and Fresh. Author's Rare First Book.Beautiful Copy.

Softcover. First Paperback Edition. 12mo, 286 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is off-white with black and red lettering. Wraps have mild general soiling, a small crease along rear head edge, and moderate sunning along spine. Signed flat on publisher's laid-in compliments slip by Jerzy Kosinski as Joseph Novak. Shelved Room C. 1397045. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Jerzy Kosinski's first book published pseudonymously. A near fine copy in gray cloth, red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh, neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper showing some light creasing. 8vo. 286 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper that is slightly and barely noticeably dampstained. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. The author's first book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The first British edition of the author's first book, a pseudonymously published nonfiction account of Russia in the postwar years, predating his first novel, The Painted Bird, by five years. Inscribed by the author as "Jerzy Kosinski" for Hugh Moorhead in 1982. Moorhead was a Philosophy professor at Northeastern Illinois University who wrote to 250 authors to ask them what they thought the meaning of life was, and then published their answers in a depressing book that suggested nobody had much of a clue. Stripe at bottom page edges; very good in a very good dust jacket chipped at the upper front spine fold. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition of Jerzy Kosinski's first book, published pseudonymously, Inscribed by him on the half-title. A near fine copy in the publisher's pictorial stiff card wrappers, as issued, showing some light use. 8vo. 286 pp. [22-27514]. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First British edition. From the library of distinguished actor/singer Theodore Bikel, with his bookplate on front paste-down. About near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Light foxing to end-papers & paste-downs. Couple mild bumps to corner tips on cloth. Trace of light edge wear to dust jacket. ) Author's Jerzy Kosinski's pseudonymously published FIRST book. Interesting association copy as Theodore Bikel was a notable political activist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. A little modest overall wear, about near fine in very good dustwrapper with some small chips and tears. The author's very fragile, pseudonymous first book. Inscribed by the author, preserving his anonymity with a quote from Dostoevsky: " 'Till the secret is revealed there are two sorts of truth for me - one, their truth, yonder, whether I know nothing about so far, and the other my own. And there is no knowing which will turn out the better.' (F. M. Dostoevsky). To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick O. McKenzie - as a token of sincere gratitude and profound admiration from Author, New York, New York. May 1960.".