Three of Them
by GÓRKY, Máxim (novel); LINDEN, A. (translation)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); brick red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; [4],384pp. Hint of sunning to spine, oxidation to spine gilt, with faint foxing to text edge and endpapers; contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper (H.B. Blauvelt, Oradell NY, Mar.14, 1923); penciled signature beneath erased, with erasure evident to extensive penciled notes on rear pastedown; Very Good+. English language translation of Gorky's 1901 novel. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev, a boy from an urban slum who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24150
- Title
- Three of Them
- Author
- GÓRKY, Máxim (novel); LINDEN, A. (translation)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Soviet Union;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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