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The Torrents of Spring. [Translated by David Magarshack.] FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MAGARSHACK TRANSLATION
by TURGENEV Ivan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title in red and black, and decorative head-pieces in the text, light tape-marks on endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, red top, pale blue endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and fold-ins. With personal bookplate on front paste-down, and striking dustwrapper artwork by Robin Jacques. First appearance of Magarshack's translation and the first new edition in English for over half a century. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44811
- Title
- The Torrents of Spring. [Translated by David Magarshack.] FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MAGARSHACK TRANSLATION
- Author
- TURGENEV Ivan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton,
- Date Published
- [1959]
- Keywords
- literature, turgenev, ivan turgenev, torrents of spring, magarshack, david magarshack, robin jacques, russian literature
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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