Collins and harvil press (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Flat signed by the author. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light even toning on the endpapers. Poor DJ has loss on the back with tears.

Condizione: Good. Boards have little wear. Light toning to pages with spotting. DJ has edge wear and light toning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Little wear to boards. Pages tanned. DJ is toned with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. VG dust jacket. Previous owner's name ffep. Nice dj. with lvery light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint. Boards are clean. Content is clean. Good DJ with some tears, toning and fading on the spine.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. The Dust jacket is significantly chipped at spine extremes and corners but has been wrapped in protective plastic. It has also been dampstained.Endpapers show foxing and have been inscribed in places. Text is unimpeded.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo xii + 685pp., appends., index, Memoirs of the wife of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam. A complementary volume to 'Hope Against Hope'. Ex-library with usual stamps & labels o/w VG.

Hardback. Nadezhda Mandelstam, Collins & Harvil Press London . Edition: Vol I (repr.); Vol II (1st ed.,)Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Vol II - slight bruising to board edges. Otherwise, both vols. in good condition, clean texts. "Hope Against Hope" and "Hope Abandoned" together form one of the twentieth century's towering works of memoir and witness, in which Nadezhda Mandelstam chronicles her life with the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam under Stalin's terror, recounting in the first volume his arrests in 1934 and 1938 and his death in a Siberian transit camp, while the second volume reaches back to their first meeting in 1919 and extends forward through her own decades of clandestine survival, preserving his manuscripts from memory, and offers searingly candid portraits of contemporaries including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Nikolai Bukharin, the whole constituting both an indictment of Soviet totalitarianism and a profound testament to the power of poetry and human dignity to endure catastrophe. Hardback.…