Labedz Leopold Introduction (19 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. crease in cover/spine, Ex-Library: contains identifying library markings but withdrawn from circulation.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Early paperback edition; tight, clean copy with minor wear to the edges and corners, including a few small creases. Off-white discoloration on some sections of the cover, but nothing overly bad. Binding is firm.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Perennial Library Ed Publ. 1970. 127 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Paul Bacon (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 23rd Printing. 203 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Mildly or minimally shelf worn. Minimal, light or very mild discoloration/browning/tanning or foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. An ex-public-library copy (Sarasota Public Library, Sarasota, FL) with all or some of the typical, common, usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. New Edition. 203 + xx pp. A great study or work or reading or research copy! Well bound copy with moderate to extensive wear and use. Indented and slanted spine. Creased cover page bottom corner. Occasional markings on text. Worn corners.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Mass market paperback, 388 pages including a new "Preface to the 1974 edition" (by editor); very tiny traces of shelf wear, pages age toned as usual, but very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our listing for Solzhenitsyn's August 1914, or for something completely different, Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition. Minor discoloration to pages. DJ is covered with Mylar sheet. Minor wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor rubbing wear to DJ covers. Tips are slightly bent. Slight wear along the edges and tips of the book itself.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 182 pages. The dust jacket is worn, scuffed marks and creases. The boards are a touch edge worn and minor marks on the edges. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 182 pages. A collection of letters, speeches and articles documenting Solzhenitsyn's fight for freedom and the antagonisms that divide the modern Soviet literary scene.…

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 203 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; cover stain, some tan, scuff, few nicks and chips to edges, tips bumped; spine head and heal bumped with small tear spine heal; faint stain to edges; tanned pages; top edge front blurb page small tear from being slightly brittle; some darkening to edges factory coloring; otherwise clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 2nd Edition. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1963. First (1st) Printing of the First Edition from this publisher. In 1963 several publishers, including Praeger, published translations of the censored text, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, as published in November, 1962, in Novy Mir, in the Soviet Union. The canonical text, authorized by Solzhenitsyn was not published in the U.S.A. until 1991. Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley translated the present volume. Fine in a Good+ mylar-protected Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, creamy white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full charcoal gray cloth with a white design to the front board, colors uniform throughout, bright gilt title, with red design, white author and publisher to the spine, unmarked red endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The mylar-protected Dust jacket is bright, though the words "one day" in red on the spine are faded, otherwise colors uniform throughout, and heavily chipped at top and bottom edges, with the original price ($3.95) intact on the front flap. See the photos. xxiv, 210 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Labedz. This novel of the forced labor camps in the northeast of the Soviet Union instituted by Stalin follows an ordinary day of a man condemned to serve ten years for having been captured by the Germans during World War 2, and thereby becoming suspect as a spy. …

Condition: Good. french édition marques du temps plis de lecture et/ou de stockage coins émoussés couverture présentant des taches de rousseurs mais du reste en état correct pour son grand age - Envoi rapide et soigné dans une enveloppe à bulle depuis France. in8. 1971. broché. 268 pages. Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Two paperbacks, Vol 26 No 3/4, 213pp+204pp + 4 pages of glossy b&w plates per volume, NOT ex-library. Clean untanned interiors, unmarked text, good binding. Minor faint grubby marks on last pages of Vol.2. Short creases/small indentations to page and cover edges. Covers gently age-toned with shelfworn marks, scratches, moderate rubbing to edges, spine creases (horizontal creases to lower edge of both volumes). -- Contents: PART 1 [38 Articles] / Poland: Self-Occupation and Resistance Part I (Preface; Introduction by Leszek Kolakowski); Past and Present (Wielopolski in 1861; Jaruzelski in 1981; Marx, Stalin, Andropov, Jaruzelski); The State of War (A Polish-Polish Dialogue by Slawomir Mrozek; How to Conduct a Dialogue with the Terrorist by Maciej Poleski; Jaruzelski's War by Michael Sadykiewicz; Colonel Wislicki Speaks); Perceptions and Distortions (An Imperialist Plot by Valeri Kuzavkov; The Dept. of Disinformation at Work by Tomasz Mianowicz; Jaruzelski, Walesa and The Guardian); Solidarity and Resistance (Significance of Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash; Resistance to Totalitarianism by Aleksander Gella; The Founding of KOR by Jan Jozef Lipski; A Question of Solidarity); Official Voices (The Kubiak Report; A Confidential Assessment of the Situation; Government and its Opponents); Discordant Voices (Past Experience - Future Indefinite; Experience, yes - but what about the Future by Andrzej Bujnicki); Voices of Resistance I (What Next? by Zbigniew Romaszewski; Why You Are Not Signing by Andrzej Zagozda; Theses on Solving an Insoluble Problem by Jacek Kuron; Positional Warfare by Zbigniew Bujak; The Third Possibility by Wiktor Kulerski; Open Letter by Jacek Kuron); Officialdom (The Hair-Styles of Mieczyslaw Rakowski by Leopold Tyrmand; Rakowski and Solidarity; The Government Spokesman); The Church (Polish Church and the Government by Dominik Morawski; Letter to Primate Glemp by Anka Kowalska; Primate Glemp Criticized by the Priests; The Homily of Bishop Tokarczuk; Interview with Cardinal Glemp; Polish Bishops on the Suspension of Martial Law); Glossary // PART 2 [35 Articles] / Poland: Self-Occupation and Resistance II; Life Under Martial Law (The State of War through the Eyes of Children; The Canary by Marek Nowakowski; From Solidarity to Arts Control by Halina Filipowicz; Terror and Revolution: Wajda's Danton; Three Actors Speak Out; Mirage of Economic Reform by J. Krok-Paszkowski; Are Flowers Socialist? by Daniel Passent; The Universities Under Martial Law by M.Kolodziej); One Year Later (Jaruzelski in 1982-3; State of War and Normalization by T.Mianowicz; The Institutionalization of Martial Law; Military Penal Camps; The Balance-Sheet of Persecution); Voices of Resistance II (Letter from a Political Prisoner by E.Kubasiewicz; A Day in the Underground; An Independent Society by D.Warszawski; At the Crossroads by Jan K.; Bujak on Violence; Landscape After the Battle by S.Warecki; Voices from the Underground; Declaration by KOS; Declaration of Solidarity; Declaration of Solidarity: Debate; Three Declarations); The View From History (Early Soviet Designs on Poland by Adam Westoby and Robin Blick; Polish Communists, 1937-1944 by Cezary Baryka; Courier from Warsaw by Jan T. Gross; Two Fatherlands - Two Patriotisms by Jan Jozef Lipski; Paradoxes of Polish Nationalism by K.A. Jelenski; Poland and the Logic of Solidarity by Henry Norr; On Conquest by Czeslaw Milosz); Glossary; Index to Vol.26.…

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. 1972. First edition, thus. Penguin paperback. Covers are slightly worn, spine is faded. Pages browned o/w contents are clean and sound. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition First Printing. Promoted as "the most startling & important work every published in the Soviet Union" when it was first published in the literary magazine "Novy Mir" in1962, this is the First Edition, first printing in English in book form from Praeger, 1963. Octavo has matte black cloth-covered boards decorated in white to front cover & lettered in red/gilt/white to spine, in 210 pages.Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & completely unmarked save for former owner's initials to ffep. Binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white with mild tanning. Mild rubbing to extremities, heavier along bottom edges. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $3.95 price intact to front flap) is also VG+: unworn with light darkening/soil; protected by original owner in clear mylar cover! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…