Translated Michael Glenny (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Printing. Dust jacket is rubbed, with slight yellowing at edges.

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, second printing. Large octavo hardback, 242 pp. Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket (one very small closed edge tear) Gift inscriptionon front end paper.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First USA edition first printing Large octavo hardback xiv + 622 pages Endpaper maps Near Fine condition in Very good + unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on half-title. Nice copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 8vo, 224 pp. Spine cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped and rubbed. Jacket handled, rubbed, edgeworn.

Very good with very good, price clipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on bottom page edge. Dust jacket is bumped at top and bottom of spine. 263 pages plus eight pages of illustrations.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First English translation of 1971 Russian first edition. Translation by Michael Glenny. Publisher's original red cloth binding with title in gilt on spine. In original dust jacket, unclipped, price £3. Jacket by Edward Mortelmans. Dust jacket is fine with just minimal wear to edges. Binding is fine. Pages bright and clean. Further details and images are available on request. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, sixth impression. Edge wear and some chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners scuffed, spine very slightly sunned. not price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square. 645pp. Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece of the dying days of Tsarist Russia and the country's tragic involvement in the First World War. …

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 223 very clean, firm pages. Illusrated with photographs by the author plus maps drawn by Leo Vernon. Frontispiece shows The Great Wall of China. This is a very good copy of this book. The jacket is very good condition, but has been laminated to the book by a previous owner, resulting in a very neat book but the jacket can not be removed. This is not an ex-library book. Book.…

with dustjacket, hardcover. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 622 pages; aceptable hardcover with dustjacket; foxing to edges; some tanning; spine starting and slanting; dustjacket scuff to face, some tanning, tear spine head, few nicks to edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 126 pp. With bookplate and ink inscription on ffep. Usual stamps. Pictorial d.j. has light edgewear and the odd nick, else an excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. 622 pp. Crisp, unmarked pages. Solid binding. Dj worn; price cut out from front flap. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Karl W. Stuecklen (Drawings) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Synopsis: "The general concept of this novel," the author has written, "came to my mind in 1936, when I was just leaving secondary school. Since then I have never parted from it, regarding it as the chief artistic design of my life." He has also said he considers the previous books he has published minor to this--"a result of the oddities of my life story." AUGUST 1914, the first part of this major work, is set at the outbreak of the First World War, and its moral concern is to establish the responsibility for Russia's defeat in the battle of Tannenberg. Limiting itself to the opening two weeks of the war, the novel describes the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the encirclement and defeat of General Samsonov's Second Army by Hindenburg. This disaster revealed the dry rot at the core of Tsarism and hastened its downfall. The main theme is filled out by a great cross-section of characters, both fictitious and historic, from every walk of Russian life. The fictional character of Colonel Vorotyntsev, an enlightened and ironic young staff officer who mixes with the soldiers as much as with generals, provides a link between the various elements in the story. Solzhenitsyn gives a sympathetic portrait of Samsonov as the victim of staff blunders and personality clashes, and there is a moving description of his suicide in defeat. AUGUST 1914 is a triumph of historical reconstruction as well as of the creative imagination. In the final chapter, it is clear that the guilty will escape through their influence at court, that Russia's military humiliation is only a symptom of the deeper shame of the Tsarists system, and that a new Russia will somehow have to be born. The novel glows with the author's love of his country and with his deep concern for ordinary men and women. It's first publication in English, in an excellent translation by Michael Glenny, is a literary event of world-wide importance. About the Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. Until 1994, when he returned to Russia, he lived and worked in Vermont, primarily on The Red Wheel. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Hard cover edition with dustjacket. 622 pages. Dimensions: 6.25" by 9.5". Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, Copyright 1974, 1974 edition. Red-Orange binding. Cover defect(s): Slight corner/edge damage. Dustjacket defect(s): Some chipping. Some tears. 2.5 Pound Shipping Rate. Genre(s): History / World War 1.…

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good + (ABOVE AVERAGE). Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD (AVERAGE). First English Edition. G.E.H. Mansell the former Deputy Director General of the BBC , His personal copy.POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). Please e-mail for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 1 Fold Out Map (illustrator). Signed by A "Gerard Mansell 19. …

Hardback. Vassily Aksyonov; Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny, Hutchinson. Author: Vassily Aksyonov; Translated from the Russian by Michael GlennyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis landmark work of Soviet literary modernism presents a phantasmagoric portrait of a generation of intellectuals who came of age in the uneasy aftermath of Stalin's death. Through the intertwined lives of five celebrated yet disillusioned men-a physicist, a musician, a physician, a sculptor, and a writer-the narrative charts a restless pursuit of creative ambition against the grinding weight of political conformity and personal betrayal. Their stories shift between the smoky ferment of 1970s Moscow and the frozen shadows of Siberian exile, where the formative experiences of Tolya von Steinbock anchor the novel's moral core. Aksyonov constructs a vivid panorama of artistic fervor, ideological compromise, and the corrosive refuge of alcohol, culminating in a tragic collapse of identity. The result is a searing indictment of repression and a testament to the fragile endurance of individuality in a society determined to subsume it. Hardback. …

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean. Record # 359302.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Special Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Green wrappers. 528 pages. Near fine. The author's breakthrough book. It's success led to his defection to the West.

Condition: Good. Mass market paperback in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 7'' x 4¼''. Contains 205 pp. Tanning to the page margins and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

Condition: Very Good. Mass market paperback in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 302 + [i] pp. Hint of tanning to the page margins and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet paper covers, gilt lettering to black cloth spine. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' 263 pp ISBN 0671700553. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with slight sun fading to the spine. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Scarce first English language paper back edition. Covers have creases and water damage that extends to first few pages. pages are browned with age, binding solid. The First Unexpurgated Edition of the long suppressed masterpiece.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First American Edition. Stated "First American printing , 1972" on copyright page. Original price of $10.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has small chip to spine head and minor corner wear now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking, [12], 622 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/near fine hardback in vg bright dustwrapper-not priceclipped but smal tear at top of dustwrapper.

Condition: Poor. Poor condition. Heavily worn cover/spine with tanning/fading/marks/creases/scratches/scuffs. Foxing/staining to textblock edges. Dark tanning to pages. Text readable.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($7.95). Book has three very light pin-head sized coffee-colored spots on fore-edge of block. Dust jacket may have trivial, if not barely noticeable age-toning and trivial wear to corners and edges. Only trivial additional signs of ag/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket, primarily to eges of block.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, two long closed tears to top of largely white jacket, corners slightly rubbed and bruised with tiny loss. Price clipped, some faint spotting to page fore edges, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 320pp. Bulgakov's classic tale of love and war in Russia in the best translation by Michael Glenny. He began writing prose with 'The White Guard' in 1924 (previously he had written for the theatre), partly published in 1925, first full edition 1927-1929 in Paris. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close knit crowd of friends and family. As the brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. The novel is powered by that distinctively Russian mix of wild hilarity and desperate heartache. There are deeply wrenching moments, terrible family losses and brilliantly staged war scenes that encapsulate the horror of Russia's turbulent, blood drenched history. The civil war was a very cruel one, on both sides. The Whites killed 100,000 Jews in organised pogroms. White cossacks dragged Red prisoners over the ground with lassos. The Reds had little to learn from them, they massacred complete villages. Priests were speared on poles, and on the bodies of White officers were tied cages with rats, the cages were then heated so that the rats gnawed their way through the bodies. The real victims were, of course, the civilians. Red and White terror cost millions of lives. Famine and disease spread. And, as if the civilians had not enough to fear from the White and the Red armies, they had to be on alert for each other too, plunderings, killings, robberies and even cannibalism were reported. Between 1918 and 1923 the civil war cost about 15 million Russian lives.This story throws light on the smallest part of an epic, horrifying drama involving all that life holds, hope, love, fear and death. Bulgakov's (1891-1940), most famous novel and a twentieth century comic masterpiece is 'The Master and Margarita' on the havoc caused by the Devil's visit to Moscow. Photos on request. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). …