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Darkness and Dawn
by Alexei Tolstoi [Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, corners bumped, former owner's name on front endpaper, fading to tail of spine./Very Good jacket, some chipping especially to crown and tail of jacket spine, 2"x1" patch of exposed paper where former price st
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Longmans, Green and co, 1936. First edition, second printing. Large 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 570 pp. Very Good, corners bumped, former owner's name on front endpaper, fading to tail of spine./Very Good jacket, some chipping especially to crown and tail of jacket spine, 2"x1" patch of exposed paper where former price sticker was removed.. Jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins. Leo Tolstoy's distant relative and more famous as the author of Stalin Prize winning epic The Road To Calvary, here is Alexei's novel of the Russian intellectual during the revolution, his plight and his survival. Translated by Edith Bone and Emilie Burns.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 538
- Title
- Darkness and Dawn
- Author
- Alexei Tolstoi [Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]
- Illustrator
- Jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins
- Format/Binding
- Large 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 570 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, corners bumped, former owner's name on front endpaper, fading to tail of spine.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, some chipping especially to crown and tail of jacket spine, 2"x1" patch of exposed paper where former price st
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- alexei tolstoy, road to calvary, soviet fiction, soviet literature, russian civil war, stalin, left oppositionism
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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