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Nightingale fever: Russian Poets in Revolution
by Hingley, Ronald
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394504518
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504513
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xiii (i) 269 (3) pp. First Edition, 1981. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Black half-cloth with grey paper-covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. "This is the dramatic and tragic story of four of the greatest russian poets of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstram, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva, and their unrelenting struggle to survive the Stalin years; their courageous dedication to their art despite tremendous personal dander.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006179
- Title
- Nightingale fever: Russian Poets in Revolution
- Author
- Hingley, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394504518
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504513
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM RUSSIAN POETS 20TH CENTURY HISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Gilt
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