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London: John Hamilton Limited, (1930).. (1930).. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine & in blind on the front cover. The covers are bumped & rubbed with a few small white stains & with some light spotting to the front cover. xxiv, [ii] & pages 27-573. The front hinge is cracked. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece. The contents are very good. <p>First edition in English.<p>The book presents an unromantized picture of Russian prostitution.

NY: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1922. Privately Printed for Subscribers, one of 1,225 copies; Foxed and age-toned throughout, else textblock clean and tight; Age-toned edges; Dust-soiled cloth spine with bumping at the head and foot; Edge-worn paper paste-down title on spine; Character-soiled boards are scuffed, worn and bumped along the edges and at the corners; No jacket; 406p.. Copy #114 of 1225 (Limited Edition). Quarter Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Random House: The Modern Library. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (literature, prostitution, novel) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Random House: The Modern Library, 1932-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Modern Library Book. Good. Hardcover. Name in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Spine sunned. Slight spine slant. First Modern Library edition with balloon binding and M over Modern Library on spine. Binding firm..

New York: The Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 16mo. 442pp. Foreword by Arthur Garfield Hays. Toledano style 7 brown balloon cloth stamped in gilt. Spine and edges sunned, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition in English. 8vo. New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1927. Ex-university library. Limited and numbered, this being #147 of 950 copies printed for America. There were also 550 for Great Britain and 55 unnumbered copies for the press. Printed on Berkeley Antique laid paper, 406 pp. One of Kuprin's later novels on prostitution and brothels in Russia. Front hinge shaken. Good..

New York: Privately Printed, 1922. This Russian novel about prostitution made a sensation upon its publication, in installments, over a period spanning 1909-1915. Kuprin told one reporter at the time that "Prostitution is a worse evil than war of famine," and wrote to expose it as an ill of Russian society. This privately printed edition is translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. The private print run was limited to 1225 copies, of which this is No. 1182. It is stamped with this number on the verso of the endpaper facing the title page. Overall a Good copy; some spotting to spine; slight soil and crease to upper rear cover; inside pages are clean, and binding is strong. Includes an introduction by the translator, describing the work and its author, as well as a translator's note about the language, which Guerney says "bristles with neologisms." 406 pages; approx. 6"x8".. Limited. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Hamilton, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Marked and worn. A reading copy. The spine is missing. Poor.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

University Press of the Pacific, 2001-01-01. Paperback. Good.

New York Ny: Privately Published, 1927. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Xii, 406 Pp. Second English Language Edition, 1927, Both Editions Privately Published, This One Is #873 Of 1550 Copies. Lightly Used, Corners Bumped, But Unopened (Pages Still Attached At Top Edge). No Marks. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: ????????? ???????? ??????; 7 September [1870 -1938) Was A Russian Writer Best Known For His Novels The Duel (1905) And Yama: The Pit (1915), As Well As Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), And The Garnet Bracelet (1911) - But Best Known For Intiating A New Phase Of Russian Literature With His Short Stories. According To Nicholas Luker, "Kuprin's Position In The History Of Russian Literature Is Highly Significant, If Not Unique. Born Into An Age Overshadowed By The Great Russian Novel, Which Had Reached Its Zenith In The 1860S. He Turned To The Short Story As The Genre Suited Both To His Own Restless Temperament And To… Read More

University Press of the Pacific, 2001-01-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

John Hamilton, 1930. Book. Very Good-. Hard Cover Black Cloth. First Edition. No jacket. Slight wear to head & foot of spine, corners rubbed. Edges of pages have small marks..

Pyramid R541 Book. Good. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Originally published in Russian, and here translated from that language by Nina N. Selivanova, this is "the classic story of a Russian brothel." From the back cover: "When 'Yama' was first published the Russian censorship mutilated it beyond recognition. Kuprin was called a corruptor of youth and his book was denounced as pornography." 223 pages, illustrated, cover painting by George Zeil. Small sticker shadow to top right corner of front cover, light rubbing, faint edge soil, tanning, moderate general wear. Internally still fairly tight, but a rough or careless reading might change that in a hurry. .

New York, NY: Random House; The Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. Good. Green boards, slightly sunned along the edge. Fraying at top of spine. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Yama: The Pit: A Novel of Prostitution.

Pyramid Books. New York: Pyramid Books, Inc. , 1960 reprint. R-541 very good - fine, reading crease Cover art by George Zeil. , russian brothel paperback,

Paperback / softback. New.

Complete in one volume. very good, Navy blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, lightly rubbed to top and bottom of spine and corners, internally clean throughout.Kuprin's classic novel originally published between 1909 and 1915 on prostitution and based around a red light area of a fictional Russian town but based on Odessa. While set in Russia in the early years of the 20th Century, the setting could be any large City in any part of the World. The work outraged the censors and horrified the public, but was critically acclaimed.