Utley freda 1898 1978 (4 risultati)

Hardcover. xiii, [1], 198 p.; 21.5 cm. Good orig. tan cloth in edgeworn dj.

WILL THE MIDDLE EAST GO WEST ? Henry Regnery Company Chicago, 1. Auflage 1957, ERSTAUSGABE, FIRST EDITION, 198 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, hellbraunes Oln. 8 to), gut erhalten - von Freda Utley mit Empfehlung eigenhändig signiert.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st ed. ix, [3], 3-371p. Original green cloth. dj. 22 cm. Jacket has some soiling and is edge-worn with a few modest chips. Introduction by John P. Marquand. Neatly INSCRIBED by Utley to John P. Marquand and his wife Adelaide ("To John & Adelaide Marquand from Freda Utley December 1941"). Utley who graduated with honors from London University and become a university radical, was invited to Russia and became a Communist and married a Russian Government employee. She lived in the USSR for several years despite the harsh reality of life under Soviet Communism. She did not leave Russia with her son until the Russian Secret Police essentially disappeared her husband. This is an account of her life and her disillusionment with Russia as well as some analysis of the current politicla situation the her thoughts about the future for Hitler, Stalin, etc. Marquand really liked this book and later wrote the Introduction to a revised and slimmer version of this book which was published in 1948 as "Lost Illusion".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st ed. xi, [3], 288p. Original red cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket has a fair amount of edge-wear. It also has quite a bit of foxing which is mostly hidden away on the blank back side. Introduction by John P. Marquand. Neatly INSCRIBED by Utley to Marquand on the front free endpaper ("To John P. Marquand on of the few writers of our time whose books will be both studied and enjoyed in future ges as a vision of our time and a source of human wisdom. With my sincerest thanks for his kindness in writing the introduction to this book Freda Utley New York February 1948"). Utley who graduated with honors from London University and become a university radical, was invited to Russia and became a Communist and married a Russian Government employee. She lived in the USSR for several years despite the harsh reality of life under Soviet Communism. She managed to get out of Russia with her son after the Russian Secret Police essentially disappeared her husband. Utley had written an earlier account of her experiences and disillusionment with Communism and the USSR in "The Dream We Lost:")which was published in New York by John Day in 1940. Marquand and others urged Utley to condense and revise that book and seek to find a publisher for the revised version in the post-WWII world. This is that revised book.…