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Midnight in the Century
by Victor Serge; Richard Greeman (trans.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, very slight push to tail of spine, light soiling to top of text block./Very Good jacket, some minor dampstaining running along tail of spine to front and rear panels, light soiling to jacket spine an
- ISBN 10
- 090461395X
- ISBN 13
- 9780904613957
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Readers and Writers, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, black cloth boards with stamped gilt lettering on spine in illustrated jacket, 251 pp. Near Fine, very slight push to tail of spine, light soiling to top of text block./Very Good jacket, some minor dampstaining running along tail of spine to front and rear panels, light soiling to jacket spine and rear panel, otherwise clean and bright.. Serge's novelization based upon his own time in exile in Orenburg, near the modern day border between Russia and Kazakhstan. A stark look at Old Bolsheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, and Left Oppositionists in exile and under the thumb of Soviet authority, though nevertheless a brimming novel looking to the future, toward the final Revolution.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382
- Title
- Midnight in the Century
- Author
- Victor Serge; Richard Greeman (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, black cloth boards with stamped gilt lettering on spine in illustrated jacket, 251 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, very slight push to tail of spine, light soiling to top of text block.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, some minor dampstaining running along tail of spine to front and rear panels, light soiling to jacket spine an
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 090461395X
- ISBN 13
- 9780904613957
- Publisher
- Readers and Writers
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- victor serge, soviet, soviet art, cold war, leftism
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About the Seller
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Ridgewood, New York
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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