Search Results: Poland from Black Cat Hill Books

New York, NY Grove Press, 1969. Paperback First Edition (1969); First Printing, So Stated. This is an Evergreen Original, the true first American edition. First Edition (1969); First Printing, So Stated. This is an Evergreen Original, the true first American edition. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faintest soiling to wrapper covers; some faint foxing ato the top edge; a price has been neatly blocked out at the upper corner of the rear panel and another at the lower corner of the front panel; an extremely faint crease near the upper rear corner; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive… Read More

New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. Paperback First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 407pp. Trade Paperback. Published years after Wat's death, this remarkable transcription of his taped memoirs sears the imagination. Like Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn, Wat records the life of a political prisoner with agonizing precision, texturing his recall with comic and compassionate portraits of his fellow prisoners and their guards. But Wat's genius lies beyond memorable evocation of place or even portraiture. His work is subtitled an "odyssey," and its true force transpires through the political and spiritual implications of his journeys among 13 Polish and Russian prisons during the 1930s… Read More

New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover Second Edition (1928). Very Good: shows mild nudges to the corner tips; mild rubbing; the back-strip is dust-darkened, the panels appear to be sun-blanched, though the titles at both remain bold and clearly legible; the outside edges of the text block are lightly tanned; the binding is square and secure; the text isw clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and a number of minor cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.65 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches). 1161 pages. Translated M. H. Dziewicki. Language: English. Weight: 27.5 ounces. Second Edition (1928). Hardback: Lacks DJ.