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Published by Pocket Books, New York, 1978
Seller: Homeless Books, Berlin, Germany
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. Two short novels/ Soviet science fiction. In a protective plastic case. Some signs of wear and age, particuarly to edges of cover. The spine is slightly slanted and out of shape. The cover artwork and reading pages are still in good condition.
Published by Pocket Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819763ISBN 13: 9780671819767
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light creasing visible across exterior hinges and spine strip. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.54.
Published by Pocket Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819763ISBN 13: 9780671819767
Seller: One Two Many Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. printed in canada. the binding is too tight and the glue is too old for my taste: crack it open at your own risk!.
Published by Kangaroo Pocket Books, New York, 1978
Seller: Burley Fisher Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Extremely scarce edition of Strugatsky novels 'Tale of the Troika' and 'Roadside Picnic'. Owing to their association with the immortal director Andrei Tarkovsky, the Strugatsky brothers are nonetheless at the very pinnacle of Soviet Science Fiction. Their names stand alongside Zamyatin and Yefremov in the great pantheon of the Soviet literature. Page ends are yellowed, and corners of the cover are scuffled. Nonetheless this remains a fantastic piece of history, when the brothers began to find a popular audience outside of the Soviet Union. Roadside Picnic would famously serve as the blueprint for the seminal film Stalker , which in time would spawn an aesthetic category, historical verisimilitudes; the book has been linked with the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and even the fall of the Soviet Union itself. A piece of history.
Published by Pocket Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819763ISBN 13: 9780671819767
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: Good. Good. book.
Published by Macmillan Publishing / Collier Macmillan Publishers 1977 (first printing), New York / London, 1977
Seller: Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries, Groningen, Netherlands
Hardcover halfcloth with dustjacket and mylar protective cover. X, 245 pp. In almost as new condition!.
Published by Macmillan, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. burgundy spine, silver lettering, blue papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 245 pp, slightly soiled to cover, tear on front cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: Centigrade 233, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. A volume that contains two short novels. "Roadside Picnic" is about the wonderful and puzzling artifacts left by alien visitors, while "Tale of the Troika" is a satire set in the distant future where the world is divided into different floors where the elevators never work. No remainder mark, not price-clipped, not bumped. Some edgewear to bottom of spine, some toning to the rear and side flaps of the dust jacket. Comes in a mylar cover. All books are bubble-wrapped and placed in a study shipping box when mailed. Tracking number supplied on domestic orders.
Published by Pocket Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819763ISBN 13: 9780671819767
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. Mild shelf wear. No DJ.
Published by Pocket Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819763ISBN 13: 9780671819767
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: very good. In Used Condition.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Book
Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by Macmillan, 1977
ISBN 10: 0026151707ISBN 13: 9780026151702
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. New.
Published by MacMillan, New York, 1977
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Rarely seen in any condition, this is a rare collectible copy. Certainly the most important of Soviet science-fiction writers are the brothers Strugatsky [Arkady and Boris]. Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris (authors), Theodore Sturgeon (introduction). ROADSIDE PICNIC / TALE OF THE TROIKA. New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition in English. First American Edition. 8vo., 245pp. Quarter maroon cloth over blue paper covered boards, stamped silver at the spine. A very fine, fresh example in a very fine bright dust wrapper. A brilliant example of the book which served as the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky's masterful 1979 film, "Stalker," for which the Strugatskys co-wrote the screenplay. Certainly the most important of Soviet science-fiction writers are the brothers Strugatsky [Arkady and Boris] whose popularity extends throughout Europe & America. Their cannon of works illuminates the S-F world & their highlight is Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika translated masterfully by Antonina W. Bouis [Russian: Piknik na obochine]. The preface to the first English & First American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. ". . . The Strugatskys posit that the Earth experiences a brief visit from extraterrestrials, who leave behind them - well, call it litter, such as might be left by you and me (in one of our less socially conscious moments) after a roadside picnic. The nature of these discards, products of an utterly alien technology, defies most earthly logic, to say nothing of earthly analytical science, and their potential is limitless. Warp these potentials into all-too-human goals - the quest for pure knowledge for its own sake, the search for new devices, new techniques, to achieve new heights in human well-being; the striving for profit, with its associated competitiveness; and the ravenous thirst for new and more terrible weapons - and you have the framework of this amazing short novel. Add the Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness, and you have a truly superb tale, ending most poignantly in what can only be called a blessing. You won't forget it. Tale of a Troika is a very different thing indeed--so different that it might have been written by quite different authors - which is the highest possible tribute to the authors' versatility. How much you like it will depend on your taste for satire and lampoon. It is, in nature, reminiscent of Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, with (and here I confess to a highly subjective evaluation) one important difference: Lem's approach and style are, in comparison, unleavened, no matter how deeply he plunges into the surrealistic and the absurd. The cumulative effect is Kafkaesque horror. The Strugatsky fury - and it is fury: disgust with hypocrisy, with bureaucratic bumbling, with self-serving, self-saving distortions of logic and of truth and of initially decent human motivations - their fury is laced with laughter, rich with scorn, effervescent with the comic spirit. One has to search back to Alice's tea party to find a scene as mad as the chamber of the Troika; yet, in retrospect, one realizes that one has experienced a profoundly serious work, since every bent line illuminates a straight one, all illogic signifies the purity from which it has departed. A word of appreciation must be extended to Ms. Antonina W. Bouis, the translator of these short novels. Russian I do not know; fiction I do; and I must honor anyone who can so deftly pass emotion, character dimension, even conversational idiom, through so formidable a barrier". - Theodore Sturgeon, San Diego, California 1976. The story was written by the Strugatsky brothers in 1971 (the first outlines written January 18 - 27, 1971 in Leningrad, with the final version completed between October 28 & November 3, 1971 in Komarovo . It was first published in the Avrora literary magazine in 1972, issues 7 - 10. Parts of it were published in the Library of Modern Science Fiction book series, vol. 25, 1973. It was also printed in the newspaper Youth of Estonia in 1977 -1978. Protected in mylar.