Captain's Daughter and Other Stories - The Tales of Belkin, The Queen of Spades, Kirdjali, The Negro of Peter The Great
by Pushkin, Alexander (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin) (1799 - 1837)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394707141
- ISBN 13
- 9780394707143
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Vintage Books -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large softcover, no date, 1970's ?, clean square and tight, flat uncreased spine, no names, edge wear. "Pushkin was the first in Russia to write permanent fiction, the first truly original Russian novelist ---Pushkin's literary prose is rational, analytical, intentionally bald, pruned of all irrelevant ornament, and almost affected in its simplicity --- The Captian's Daughter was the only work of Pushkin's that had a powerful influence on the next age - it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become." Contents include: Captain's Daughter / The Tales of Belkin: The Shot; The Snowstorm; The Undertaker; The Postmaster; Mistress Into Maid / The Queen of Spades / Kirdjali / The Negro of Peter The Great. Check out the scans. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Cover design by Edward Gorey,. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008905
- Title
- Captain's Daughter and Other Stories - The Tales of Belkin, The Queen of Spades, Kirdjali, The Negro of Peter The Great
- Author
- Pushkin, Alexander (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin) (1799 - 1837)
- Illustrator
- Cover design by Edward Gorey,
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0394707141
- ISBN 13
- 9780394707143
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- September 12, 1957
- Keywords
- Pushkin, Alexander (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin) (1799 - 1837) Captain's Daughter and Other Stories - The Tales of Belkin, The Queen of Spades, Kirdjali, The Negro of Peter The Great Cover design by Edward Gorey, Vintage Books 0394707141 -----T
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...