Kataev Valentine (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Maroon cloth binding, 300pp. Light wear. Book of the Month Club booklet laid in, private bookplate on front endpaper. Photos on request. Size: 8v.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st American 1924(November) Edition. Dark Maroon Leatherette Cover; Spine lettering faded. No dust jacket. Overall very good condition. Some slight browning of pages. Deckled page edging. Translated by Leonide Zarine. Lincoln Mac Veagh; The Dial Press; New York. T. Dahl (Box #3).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. First Edition, stated first printing. The book is fine with stiff spine, rigid boards, red top stain & pointed tips, but has internal previous owner bookplate on the front paste down beneath the dust jacket flap. Nice and clean inside, feels unread. The jacket is only good plus due to a 5" by 2" loss on the top front cover and into the top spine. Otherwise, not price clipped, tiny losses at some tips and along some edges. Retains a vibrant red color and looks handsome in shiny plastic cover. Packing suitable for wrapping.…

First US printing. Humorous novel set in the "new" Moscow. Translated by Leonide Zarine. Very good in dark red cloth (lettering on spine rubbed, bookplate.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st US Printing. Bookplate on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The dust wrapper is chipped and worn, but mostly present. This is a Russian novel set in Russia of the 1930's a sympathetic to the Communist government.

Condition: Good. Boards may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition, First printing. Shelf wear to sunning to boards. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Residue on ffep from removal of a bookplate (see photo). Pages toning with age, otherwise Text is unmarked. Price clipped dj has seen better days (see photos). chipped, toned, torn & held together with clear tape in a mylar cover.…

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo; pp; 300; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue. Valentine Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. The Embezzlers was his first novel, a humorous work set in Moscow, translated by Leonide Zarine. spine darkened else a clean tight very good copy.…

Very good condition. Bookplate on front endpaper. Spine is lightly faded. Spine tips and bottom cover corners are lightly bumped. 300 pages.

Good condition. Bookplate on front endpaper. Covers are slightly dull with a small stain at bottom front corner. Spine tips and corners are bumped with a crease on spine. 300 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. Pages begin with a list of characters and a poem by Lermontov. Slightly smaller book, yellow cloth, black lettering very fine on spine, 341 lightly browned stiff pages. DJ heavy paper, dark green with illustration of sailship on front, white back slightly browned with report by Howard Fast on this book, list of other titles inside DJ back flap, including Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun," and "Scottsboro Boy" by Sean O'Casey. DJ has slight wear at front tips and places along front bookfold edge, light wear to bottom front edge, very slight wear to spine edges, small surface wear spot at spine left, very slight wear at back bookfold edge, small chip at bottom back edge. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. New York: The Dial Press, 1929. First American Edition. Very Good+/Good. Very clean maroon cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Maroon topstained edges. 300 pgs. Translated from the Russian by Leonide Zarine. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has some chipping and edgewear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Fiction. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated. The jacket has a few quarter inch size tears along the top edge and some scuffing along the side edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood with clean text. No dustjacket. Front, back cover and spine have some wear. Former library book of Capital Library. Description glued to paste down endpaper. Pencil marking paste down endpaper. Binding slightly torn inside front cover. Library stamp front free endpaper. Pencil back free endpaper. Stain on paste down endpaper. Light foxing on fore-edge and bottom and throughout pages. Translated by Leonide Zarine. First printing in America. Published in New York-1929. Sm8vo. 300 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover, no dust jacket. First edition. Translated by Leonide Zarine. Published in New York, 1929. Clean, lightly tanned pages. Sm 8vo. 300pp.

345p., original red cloth boards with titling stamped in black, lacking dustjacket; spine a bit toned, boards slightly shelfworn with lightly bumped corners, top-edge of text is somewhat dust-soiled, hinge starting. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book club edition. Very good in a very good dustwrapper.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (russian fiction, 20th century, cashiers, accountants ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. NO DUST JACKET. First Printing. First Printing. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good. NO DUST JACKET.

Condition: Fine. NY 1929 1st American edition. Translated by Leonide Zarine. Humorous novel about life in communist Russia. Hardcover. Octavo, cloth. Fine in VG DJ, bright red and black geometric design on front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first printing in America issued November, 1929, owners name with date of November 1929 with no other marks. Fine-near fine.

No publication date given, 195- supplied. Translated from Russian by Fainna Solasko [etc.] 378 pages. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good, no dust jacket. -- Author born 1897, Russian novelist, short-story writer.

First Edition. THE EMBEZZLERS, Dial, 1929, first edition fine in vg dust-wrapper with a 1" square effaced by sticker removal on the front dust-wrapper panel. A "Redsicovery" title. A novel of contemporary Russia by a Russian.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1934). 432pp. GOOD copy, binding square and tight, covers a little rubbed, page edge grubby with red stain to bottom edge, internally clean; no dust jacket.

Condition: VG. NY 1937 Libert Book Club. Translated from the Russian. 8vo., 341pp., hardcover. VG in Good DJ, a bit soiled, lightly worn on edges, some scratches on front.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A semi-autobiographical novel: the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Potemkin uprising from the viewpoint of two Odessa schoolboys. First UK edition, 1937. Blue cloth rubbed and marked. Page edges foxed and inscription on front free endpaper. Contents in bright condition.…