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USSR: THE STORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA
by Duranty, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in like dust jacket with minor nicks and wear to extremities.
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in like dust jacket with minor nicks and wear to extremities.. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author on the front free-endpaper in the year of publication. Walter Duranty was a British-American journalist who served as the Moscow bureau chief for "The New York Times" from 1922 to 1936 and wrote extensively about the country and its political developments. Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Soviet Union but was later widely criticized for presenting a distorted and overly favorable view of the regime-especially in his denial of the widespread famine (1930-1933) in the USSR, particularly the Holodomor. Uncommon signed. 8vo, cloth. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50961
- Title
- USSR: THE STORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA
- Author
- Duranty, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in like dust jacket with minor nicks and wear to extremities.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- history, nonfiction, signed, mmb
Terms of Sale
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Please note that all items are offered subject to prior sale. All our books are FIRST EDITIONS and FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. All books are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 10 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
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