GAMAILIS and Other Tales from Stalin's Russia.
by Andreyev, Vladimir (pseudonym)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in aquamarine cloth with silver lettering to spine in a very good dust jacket (toning to the dj, especially to the spi/aquamarine cloth with silver lettering to spine in a very good
- Seller
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About This Item
Chicago:: Henry Regnery,, 1963.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in aquamarine cloth with silver lettering to spine in a very good dust jacket (toning to the dj, especially to the spine). First US printing. A collection of six short stories, based on the author's experiences as a former Soviet career officer, and which reveal the horror of the prison system. Andreyev became a political emigre and witness against the Soviet concentration camps. Translated from the Russian by Fred P Berry. 240 pp. Dust jacket by Gordon Martin.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82057
- Title
- GAMAILIS and Other Tales from Stalin's Russia.
- Author
- Andreyev, Vladimir (pseudonym)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in aquamarine cloth with silver lettering to spine in a very good dust jacket (toning to the dj, especially to the spi
- Jacket Condition
- aquamarine cloth with silver lettering to spine in a very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Regnery,
- Place of Publication
- Chicago:
- Date Published
- 1963.
- Keywords
- short stories, soviet union, gulags, russia,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in translation;
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