Lectures on Russian Literature: Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy, Turgenev
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine to Fine
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About This Item
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Nice copy. Unmarked, tight copy in its first printing. Red boards with gold lettering both bright and fresh. Faint dampstain to bottom page edges mostly the first 30 pages but no color change or rippling. Price intact jacket has only very light wear. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine to Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians” (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017540
- Title
- Lectures on Russian Literature: Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy, Turgenev
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine to Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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