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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
by Kropotkin, P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899. Autobiographical work of Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921), an important Anarchist theorist. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First Edition; originally serialized in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1898-99. Olive green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, front cover, and top edge. Clean text; 519 pages. P.O. gift inscription (1925) on the front paste-down and a tiny bookstore label (Brentano's) on the rear paste-down. Two corners mildly bumped and a small white stain on the spine. A very crisp copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002310
- Title
- Memoirs of a Revolutionist
- Author
- Kropotkin, P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Reformers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Gilt
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