THE TWELVE CHAIRS.
by Ilf, Ilya (1897 - 1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903 - 1942)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)/very good
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About This Item
London:: Frederick Muller,, (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of front cover of dj). First thus. The dust jacket proclaims this as "The Great Russian Satirical Novel" originally published in 1928, but then suppressed during the Stalin regime. The authors who met in Moscow in 1925, were born in Odessa, "the humor capital of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Thieves and resourceful conmen are the object of secret admiration and pride in Odessa, and the stuff of legends. One such conman, by the name of Ostap Bender, is the hero of the two writers' main work." (Russia Beyond) Basis for several movies - both in Russia and in the US in Mel Brooks 1970 film. Translated from the Russian by John Richardson. Introduction by Maurice Freidberg. 322 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88286
- Title
- THE TWELVE CHAIRS.
- Author
- Ilf, Ilya (1897 - 1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903 - 1942)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Muller,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1965)
- Keywords
- ukraine, conman, books into movies, satire, soviet union,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in translation;
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