Ten Days That Shook the World (Modern Library #215.1, in spine 7 balloon cloth) by REED, John - [c.1936]

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1936]. Hardcover. The story of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is detailed here by this sympathetic American who was there as it happened. With a foreword by Soviet leader V.I. Lenin and introduction by Granville Hicks. Includes reproductions of revolutionary posters and other documents; appendix with revolutionary announcements and official statements. --- An ex-library copy, in Toledano spine 7 / brown balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / maroon topstain / blank endpapers / jacket style e, verso lists 242 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1936 (though 1935 date appears in the book). ML #215.1. --- Evidence of library ownership limited to rubberstampings to all textblock edges and on title page; also with prior owner's signature to front paste-down, volume is otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly-bound. Dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, small tears to edges and lightly toned spine, else bright and in removable mylar protector.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxiv, 371 pages .