Nahum Sabsay (11 results)

Light-Brown Wraps. Condition: Very Good. covers moderately worn with associated edge tears, creases and sun fade; text block clean and tight; over a dozen literary articles and essays, including: The Princess and the Ducklings, by Marie Balascheff, Princess Cantacuzene; Revisiting a River: A Recipe for Happiness, by Bliss Perry; West African melodies (a group of poems), by Aquah Laluah; The Junior College: An Indictment, by George Herbert ; Pathos and Humor of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by A. Edward Newton; Also includes many illustrated ads. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. b&w and Color Ads (illustrator). Literary Periodical.…

Hardcover. First Edition, 1st Printing. Fair. Cloth heavily foxed. Previous owner's name inked on half title. Internally clean and lightly toned.

24pp. 16mo. Original string bound yapp wrappers. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition wit "A" and seal. White cloth boards with black lettering & decoration under illustrated dust jacket priced at $2.50, black endpapers, 7-5/8" x 5-1/2", 434 pp. Near fine with minor discoloration to boards; jacket has moderate toning to spine, shallow chipping to spine ends. Born in Russian Crimea, Sabsay was a Jew who witnessed persecution as a boy, fought in the war, fled the Bolsheviks, and wound up in New York teaching himself to write by using the dictionary. A novel of the Russian revolution.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Signed by author with inscription on half-title. Very good book in good- dust jacket. Pages are clean and bright. Some foxing to boards. Dust jacket was folded at some point and there is splitting to the spine which has been repaired. Please see photos for best detail. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Top edge and extremities of boards a bit foxed, else a near fine copy in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light tanning on the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip laid into book. A Novel of the Russian Revolution. Scarce in jacket.…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 434. Bound in white cloth with striking black lettering and jagged design stamped in black on the front board, black lettering on spine. Light age-toning to cloth, and with a discreet private library label on the rear pastedown (Martinsen, at 5 E. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara). The dust jacket is quite fresh for its age, showing only the slightest evidence of its age - no edge-wear and with the $2.50 price intact on the front flap. The novel begins just after Easter, following the first revolution. In a brief New York Times review (1931), the novel is said to contain some Turgenev and Chekhov, enhanced by the author's personal experiences. A notably bright copy with the Ermakoff-designed dust jacket featuring an abstract art-deco image using bold geometric patterns. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Ermakoff (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with toning at the spine. Jacket art by E.B. Makoff. Convoluted love story set during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Scarce in this condition.

First Edition. Nahum Sabsay The Lure Limited edition, 1968, Caxton Printers, #20/50 copies, a Russian Soldier's History of fighting in World War I, Near Fine condition. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. No. 9 of 100 copies. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Donald H. McLaughlin, with esteem and best wishes, Nahum Sabsay, June 12, 1960." 346pp.; 8vo; gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in plain mylar wrap, as issued. Scarce first edition of Sabsay's dramatic first person account of his years as a soldier at the front, fighting Germans and Austrians, and ultimately the Communist Red Army. To escape the chaos Sabsay fled eastward across Siberia. After arriving in the U.S. In 1918, he would go on to study mining engineering at Harvard and moved to California where he worked as a tool and die maker while perfecting his English and writing. Sabsay died in 1965. Donald H. McLaughlin, to whom the book is inscribed, was an eminent mining engineer and had a life long association with the University of California at Berkeley.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 360. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1960 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 360.…