THE CAPTIVE MIND - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
by Milosz, Czeslaw (text); Kapusta, Janusz (illustrations)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited Edition. A new edition of the Nobel Prize-winner's 1953 work of nonfiction, written shortly after he defected from Stalinist Poland. Translated by Jane Zielonko, with a new preface by Milosz, and Polish painter Janusz Kapusta. LEC Bibliography No.537. One of 1,500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.573. Quarto (29cm); beige buckram, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; publisher's taupe paper-covered slipcase, titled in black; xii,172,[8]pp, with nine color illustrations, one black & white drawing, and a loosely laid-in color lithograph by Janusz Kapusta. Fine in a Fine slipcase, with the publisher's prospectus folded and laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6603
- Title
- THE CAPTIVE MIND - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
- Author
- Milosz, Czeslaw (text); Kapusta, Janusz (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Quarto
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- Laid-in
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- Buckram
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- Spine
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- Fine
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