Two Lives, One Russia

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in NEAR FINE Condition. xiv, 307 pages plus 10 pages of The Frolov Family Tree, copies of documents, newspaper clippings, prison floor plans. 28 illustrations. A story of yesterday's Russia and today's Soviet Union (1988)--the story of Daniloff's imprisonment in Lefortovo prison as authorities were trying to prove he was an American spy and also a story of his five year search for his Russian heritage inspired by his great-great-grandfather, Alexander Frolov, who was imprisoned by the Russian state, as a revolutionary. Daniloff's book helps grasp the meaning of the freedom and protections the American Constitution provides--the reader can see and feel the difference between autocracy and democracy. Endpapers with floor plans of Peter and Paul Fortress in front and Lefortovo Prison in back, in red and gray. Binding of deep red quarter cloth w/ bright and sharp gilt titles, red boards; clean, unmarked, square, solid volume. Two tiny spots on fore-edge of text block. Red jacket is clean and unmarked, not price-clipped, slight wear around spine ends. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1988.