FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED TO THE "LONGSHOREMAN PHILOSOPHER", ERIC HOFFER. Mihajlov was a prominent Yugoslavian dissident; an intellectual and a professor of Russian literature at the University of Zagreb who was imprisoned in 1966-1970, and then again from 1974-1977, after publishing an essay on camps for dissidents in the Soviet Union. He is reportedly the only Yugoslavian to have passport revoked. He made his way to the US upon his release in 1977, where he became a citizen in 1985, before finally returning to Serbia in 2001. The book was published as Mihajlov was still serving his prison sentence; contains essays on the proscribed theme of the ?religious renaissance?. Inscribed on ffep to philosopher Eric Hoffer, "To Mr. Eric Hoffer / with old admiration / Mihajlo Mihajlov 1980." There is no official record of Mihajlov meeting Eric Hoffer, but both were known in similar intellectual circles.

BOOK: Original black cloth boards, bumped to top right corner and spine ends, faint spots of tape residue to front and back covers; remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise internally clean and tight, inscription to ffep. DJ: Unclipped dust jacket bright and full.

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Title: Underground Notes
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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