Introduction by conquest robert john (3 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. A near fine copy of the softcover edition. Previous owner's name and location very modestly in ink at front endsheet, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some browning and faint spotting to page fore edges, spine very slightly faded, not price clipped (£18.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 322pp, illustrated. Fifty years after the Soviet regime cracked down totally on its creative artists, the combination of perestroika and his own initiative gave Russian writer and journalist Vitaly Shentalinsky (1939-2018), the chance to find out what really happened to Stalin's writer victims and to relaim their stolen words. Shentalinsky went into the KGB's archives and brought to light the tragic stories of many great writers and a number of important works, including Mikhail Bulgakov's diary, the final text of Mandelstam's lampoon on Stalin, poems prophetic of ecological disaster by Nikolay Klyuev and a previously unknown novel by Andrey Platonov. Quite a scarce book. …

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Free Press, 1996. 1st Edition. X+322 pages. New Hardcover. New DJ. 6.25"x9.5"x1.1". be43.