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London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Near Fine, small corner and edge bumps, prior owner bookplate and blindstamp at front end pages, two small spots fore edge. In a Very Good dust wrapper, small chips and rubs at spine ends and corners. A science fiction classic, one of the the grandfathers of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre, WE was banned in Russia in 1921and first published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in a translation by Gregory Zilboorg. The German TV network ZDF adapted the novel for a TV movie in 1982, under the German title Wir (English: WE).. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Dystopia] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.285 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge black. With the striking purple dust-jacket designed by Stanley Chapman, priced at 35s / £1.75. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece: "a remarkable Utopian fantasy, a landmark in world literature, the precursor of and almost certainly the model for 'Brave New World' and '1984'... We is an icily etched portrait of a dehumanized society of the future with its ubiquitous timetables, days set aside for sexual activities, glass-box living accommodation and ever-alert watch-dog police, presided over by 'The Benefactor'" (from the blurb). The novel was banned by the new Soviet censorship bureau in 1921 and was first published, in English, in New York in 1924. A Czech language edition followed, where it was condemned by a state-sponsored literary group.… Read More