nicholas wreden (10 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Book Club Edition. Brown cloth binding. The lightly tanned pages are in good clean condition. There is a name label on the front end paper. The dust jacket has a few small edge tears, some small surface tears on the back and is darkened on the spine area. There is no indication on the dust jacket that this is a book club edition, however there is an included BOMC book summary so it is a presumed book club edition. 482 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green/brown tweed bds., gilt design, black backstr., black lettering on gilt. 333pp. Ex-lib. with bookplate, else clean, edges sl. foxed. Eyewitness account of theater and music scenes in Moscow, 1930-1940.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut erhalten. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Kein Schutzumschlag. First Edition. 222 p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent condition, even though it is ex-libris. Don't think it was ever taken out. Very tight and clean. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 482 pp. Brown Cloth, Dust Jacket Good with losses & tears, slight toning, else VG.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (scarce). Blue decorated dust-jacket, clean and bright, not price-clipped, in a clear removable protective cover. Blue cloth binding with gilt title, a very slight forward lean to the spine. A scattering of little spots to the closed page edge but internally pages smooth and clean, hinge firm and no inscriptions.

[NONE] 1951. (hardcover) Near fine in good dust jacket. 333pp. 8vo. Stated First Edition to copyright page. Describes what occurred in Art (music and theatre) in Soviet Russia between 1930 and 1940. There is a single stamp to the front free endpaper that indicates this tome is from the library of Dr. Morris Shumiatcher, esteemed Canadian lawyer, human rights activist, arts patron and collector, author, lecturer, and philanthropist. The tome is otherwise clean and bright, corners square, binding solid. Lower edge is rough cut. The jacket shows chipping and tears, creases at the edges only. A near fine copy in a good to very good jacket.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; red publisher's top-stain; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain clean and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), crisp, clean and unfaded with a trace of rubbing and a single brief, closed tear to front panel; Near Fine. Quite nice copy of this late-career novel by Aldanov, set within the Soviet foreign service at the outbreak of WW2. Aldanov (1886-1957) published most of his literary work after emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1919. Most of his career was spent in France; from 1941-46 he lived in New York. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize (without ever winning) thirteen tmes.

Zustand: Fair. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! NY: W W Norton 1935. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo. 317 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Wreden on front endpaper. Fair with no dust jacket. Blue cloth with cream cloth spine. Covers edgeworn. Corners and spine ends bumped. Spine toned and foxed. 2 pgs have pencil lines, I did not see any more but may have missed something. Otherwise contents clean and the binding is sound. (russia, history, soviet union) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 317, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. To Ruth & Gordon Lewis - my pious friends and drunken companions of many many years standing. Nicholas Wreden. Cover has some wear and soiling. Rear board weak and has been strengthened with glue. The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It does not deal much with the author's Americanization, but offers an account of his personal experience in his native country during the first three years of the revolution. Nicholas Wreden was was born on November 30, 1901 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia (and died in 1955) and was a noted translator and a Russian editors Member of the American Booksellers Association (president 1942-1943). In 1935, Wreden published his memoir, describing his journey from a middle-class, patriotic identity in late Imperial Russia though his flight from the Revolution and reinvention as an American citizen. Yet in the next twenty years, Wreden would live an impactful life - as a highly regarded translator from Russian and as an editor and a publishing executive (for Dutton and Little, Brown) commissioning both Russian and American literature. He helped choose the books selected for reading by US troops (the Armed Services Editions distributed during the Second World War) as well as determining the Russian-language literature available to America's Russian diaspora through his involvement with the Chekhov Publishing House. His double role as a translator and as an editor was significant in shaping our conception of what Russian literature means today. Autobiography of a Russian midshipman during the Russian Revolution and his involvement with the White Russian resistance. He fought with Mark V tanks with British "advisors". During the First World War author entered the Naval Cadet Corps. Petrograd in wartime and during the February revolution. He traveled to Sevastopol in 1917 for naval practice. He witnessed the collapse of discipline in the fleet and returned to Petrograd in October 1917. He became Involved with the counter-revolutionary military organization and escaped to Finland. He performed military service in the North-Western Army (armored train and tanks). After the liquidation of that army he traveled to Europe aboard the trawler Kitoboi and commenced his life in exile. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.