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dj. First American Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); light grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],311,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author at upper half-title page: "For Esther and Izzy, my oldest and dearest American friends / with love / Karol / 24.II.87." Toward the lower half-title the author has written addresses and phone numbers for Paris and Rome residences. Gentle sunning to upper and lower board edges, tiny stain to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $19.95), with light surface wear; Near Fine. A memoir by a Polish student who joined the Red Army in 1941. "This is World War II as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain, a saga of passion, vodka, and melancholy. It is the story of a young Pole coming of age amid the intoxicating seductions of ideology and his sobering encounters with love and war" (from front flap). 90319. Signed.…