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UsedAcceptable. 1933 12th impression. There is either a name, note, or insciprtion on the inside cover. The dust jacket is missing. This is a hardcover copy Some foxing on the edges The front hinge is split the webbing is showing but all pages are intact The back hinge is split the webbing is showing but all pages are intact The book is slightly cocked The binding is split in the middle of the text but all pages are intact Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. Tenth impression. 899 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Signed by author on ffep, edges slightly frayed, else Fine. Tenth impression. 899 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

4 Small library stamps, FPD, BPD, FLEP. Pocket intact BLEP, Private Temple Name & Presentation Plate FPD, Very slight toning, else content appears as unblemished with black, stiff, flexible, cloth covered boards displaying minor surface/edge wear as shown.This work is undoubtedly impressive and awing. It comes at you like a shapely giant. It is fiction on the Grand Tour. And nowhere is there better contemporary history. What it lacks is wholeness of feeling: a deep and graceful seeing of the world all the way through. In brief, it towers above most modern novels, but it is not quite a great work.Zachary Mirkin, an extremely sensitive and singularly honest young Jew, born rich in Russia, is the principal person in the work. He tries to get his soul on good terms with a squirming and swiftly changing earth. He is in Petersburg, with its Czar, its imperial graft, and hideously maltreated Jews. He is in Warsaw when Jews are being torn between the grand mysticism of the… Read More