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Hope Abandoned
by Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140041869
- ISBN 13
- 9780140041866
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. 12mo size mass market paperback; 766 tanned pages Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899 -1980) was a Russian Jewish writer and the wife and widow of poet Osip Mandelstam. This is the second volume of her autobiography. From back: "(This book) complements Nadezhda Mandelstam's previous volume which describes the last years of her husband and covers the period from 1919, when she met Mandelstam, to the present day." "Mrs Mandelstam's spikily textured, sour-sweet account of her life as a young girl, poet's wife and poet's widow in Russia is a minutely descriptive narrative about people, things, daily life; acerbic, fierce, touching and profoundly moving. - Marina Vaizey in the Sunday Times" This vintage paperback has tanned pages, some rubbing and average wear to covers; sunned spine; edgewear. . Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005893
- Title
- Hope Abandoned
- Author
- Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140041869
- ISBN 13
- 9780140041866
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- biography; poets; autobiography; Osip Mandelstam;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Autobiography and Memoir;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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