From Broadway to Moscow
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] SMITH, Marjorie E
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macaulay Co, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in black on front cover and spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 317pp. Clean, tight copy, Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good example of the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, with a few tiny losses at extremities and soil to lighter portions of rear panel. Perceptive, if somewhat breezy, memoir of a New York newspaperwoman in the Soviet Union. Smith was married to political cartoonist Ryan Walker, who was in Moscow to attend the October Revolution celebrations of 1931.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14815
- Title
- From Broadway to Moscow
- Author
- [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] SMITH, Marjorie E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macaulay Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- L&R2022
- Bookseller catalogs
- Soviet Union; Russian Revolution;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...