Author: REED, JOHN
Title: Ten Days That Shook the World (Modern Library #215. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. The story of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is detailed here by John Reed, a sympathetic American who was there as it happened. Includes reproductions of period printed items, such as leaflets and official documents. With a foreword by Soviet leader V. I. Lenin and an introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe, a founding member of the Communist Party of America. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with wrap-around photo of armed revolutionaries in Russia. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1960 date appears in book). ML #215.2. --- With some loss of fill material (likely starch) to cloth along lower edge and lower part of spine, prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with chipping and small tears along edges, otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; lxviii, 439, [3, ads] pages. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>History
Title: Ten Days That Shook the World (Modern Library #215. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. The story of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is detailed here by John Reed, a sympathetic American who was there as it happened. Includes reproductions of period printed items, such as leaflets and official documents. With a foreword by Soviet leader V. I. Lenin and an introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe, a founding member of the Communist Party of America. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with wrap-around photo of armed revolutionaries in Russia. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1960 date appears in book). ML #215.2. --- With some loss of fill material (likely starch) to cloth along lower edge and lower part of spine, prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with chipping and small tears along edges, otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; lxviii, 439, [3, ads] pages. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>History
Price: US$ 37.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88751
- Book number: 88751