Verlag: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 2 December, 1867
Anbieter: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, Vereinigtes Königreich
folio [31x20cm] 21 pages. disbound. good clean condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed].
Verlag: STAGE DOOR, 2018
ISBN 10: 1787379183 ISBN 13: 9781787379183
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: BiblioGov, 2011
ISBN 10: 1240990642 ISBN 13: 9781240990641
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. KlappentextThe BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democ.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Brinkman, since 1954 / ILAB, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Bristol, Light and Ridler, 1846. Sm-8vo. xi,280 pp. Modern boards. (first and last pages foxed).
Verlag: Military publishing house of the ministry of defence of the RSFSR. 1985, 1985
Anbieter: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
In very good condition. Very lightly tanned/foxing. Size 17.5 x 22.5 inches.
Verlag: St Petersburg, "Znanie", 1906., 1906
Anbieter: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
8vo, pp. 80; somewhat age-browned, but a good copy, stitched as issued, in the original printed orange paper upper wrapper, lower wrapper renewed.First edition in book form, very rare, of Gorky's powerful, darkly comic fable. It had first appeared over two issues of Novoe Slovo in October-November 1897; here it is reissued as no. 18 in a series of 32 Gorky stories issued by his publishing concern 'Znanie' while he was in exile after the 1905 Revolution.The 'former people' of the title are a group of social outsiders petty thieves, tramps, drunkards, gamblers, mujiks, and one former schoolmaster who live together in a dosshouse run by Aristid Kuvalda, who once managed a printworks and now has a vendetta against the mercantile world, in particular his landlord Petunnikov. When Kuvalda discovers that Petunnikov's new factory is being built partly on land owned by Vavilov, who runs the local eating-house, he persuades Vavilov to present a legal case. The result is inevitable: Vavilov is strong-armed out of any potential compensation by both sides, the schoolmaster, who drafted the case, is found mysteriously near death (the result of a beating?), and Kuvalda is led away to prison having insulted the police. The character of Kuvalda, with his veiled hints at a noble background, is the story's strongest point, a portrait that Gorky told Tolstoy he drew from life, based on a scene in a Kazan courtroom.Not in OCLC or COPAC. There is a copy at the National Library of Russia. Language: Russian.