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Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog
by Vladimov, Georgi
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 067124633X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671246334
- Seller
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Tacoma, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 1979 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Introduction by Richard Adams. Heavy foxing to the edges and inside the dust jacket, remainder stamp on the lower edge; otherwise, minor shelf wear..
Synopsis
Georgi Vladimov wrote for Novy mir until resigning from the Soviet Writers’ Union in 1977, whereupon he established an office of Amnesty International, an officially outlawed organization. Vladimov emigrated to Germany in 1983 and was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. His novel A General and His Army won the Russian Booker Prize in 1995. Vladimov died in Frankfurt in 2003. A distinguished translator of Gorky, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn, Michael Glenny died in 1990 in Moscow.
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- Bookseller
- Else Fine Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000748
- Title
- Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog
- Author
- Vladimov, Georgi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067124633X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671246334
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Russian Fiction
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