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Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Selected Works - in Russian)
by Maxim Gorky
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Izdatel'stvo 'Detskaia literatura', 1968. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 223 pages. Cover 5-1/4" x 8-1/8", hardbound brown with orange drawing and black lettering on cover, orange lettering on spine, edgeworn, corners bumped, color slightly eroded on back cover. Soviet bookstore price stamp on rfep, edges slightly age-tanned, four pages accidentally creased at top corner. Binding intact, text unmarked. Printed in a run of 100,000 copies, this edition was intended for schoolchildren in "non-Russian schools" and has the stressed syllable marked in multi-syllabic words. Introduction by V. Lanina. Included are the stories "Ded Arkhip i Lion'ka", "Chelkash", "Starukha Izergil'", "Pesnia o Sokole", "Pesnia o Burevestnike", "Mat'" (abridged), "Pepe", and "Kak ia uchilsia", as well as letters by Gorky to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Shalyapin (Chaliapin) and others. Illustrations are seven black and white plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Gorky and drawings illustrating several of the stories.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RUS-11
- Title
- Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Selected Works - in Russian)
- Author
- Maxim Gorky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Izdatel'stvo 'Detskaia literatura'
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- GORKY, BOOKS IN RUSSIAN, SOVIET EDITIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books in Russian; Russian and Soviet literature;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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