ISBN: 9780374239350 - pushkin's button (26 Ergebnisse)

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grey & red ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. reading copy. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges soiled. ink notes inside front & rear covers. approximately 11 pages with ink marks in text. dustwrapper in vg cond. a bit of wrinkling, one crease on front along bottom. not price clipped. first edition. first printing (nap). ix+355p. sources. notes. index of names. biography. russian history. literary history. poetry. russian poetry.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American Edition. Stated first English-language edition. An examination of the last four months of the life of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Pushkin was killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, a result of a complicated series of events and interrelationships. This edition rendered into English from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild. --- In charcoal paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with titling stamped in gilt on spine. Dust jacket features details from Grigori Grigorevich Gagarin's painting: "Princess Baryatinskaya's Ball". --- A bright, intact and tightly-bound copy lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket in similar undamaged condition.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (12), 355 pages.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. No markings.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st US. 355 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Like New. First Edition. AS NEW in as new dust jacket. FIRST edition, first printing. Binding tight and square. Name of previous owner and acquisition date written on title page. Otherwise, unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly scuffed & creased in a mylar cover.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American Edition. This book is a riveting narrative about the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837, when a young French officer in the Russian Army shot and killed Russia's greatest living artist. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studied the case more closely, bringing out many unknown facts and details that had remained hidden. Included are endnotes, bibliography, and index. This copy is clean and solid.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First U.S. Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; Clipped d/j.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a clean, unmarked copy with slightly back cocked covers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. "Pushkin's Button" is an astonishing tour de force - a riveting narrative about the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837, when a younf French officer in the Russian Army shot and killed Russia's greatest living artist. Serena Vitale adds another level of excitement to the narrative with her absorbing references to her own archival detection work, work that enabled her to accomplish this brilliant double feat of literary interpretation and superb history.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Publisher: FSG, NY, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. PRISTINE. As New. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. PUSHKIN'S BUTTON recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case more closely, and more imaginatively, than anyone before her. Her brilliant detective work unearths fascinating, revealing details, including a button missing from Pushkin's Kamerjunker uniform. "PUSHKIN'S BUTTON will keep all constituencies of reader fastened to their seats, as they watch Petersburg's lofty denizens leave no moment of the hurtling Pushkin scandal unrecorded or not speculated on."—Monika Greenleaf, Los Angeles Times. "[A] deliciously entertaining whydunit, a book in which every page seduces with a riddle. . . . Vivacious, seductive, original."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post. "A delightful combination of retrograde pleasures (court balls, the demise of a doomed genius) and primary sources. . . . Illuminating."—Richard Lamb, New York Times Book Review. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-Marked or price-clipped} BUND.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Larger, sturdy book, purple cloth spine, dark gray boards, bright silver lettering on spine, spine lightly sunken, 355 pages. DJ price-clipped, glossy and colorfully designed with red center front and back, a color-illustration of Russians dancing at front left and front right, back left and back right, praise on back George Steiner in the New Yorker, L'Informazeone, L'Express. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1999. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374239355. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein & Jon Rothschild. 355 pages. hardcover. Jacket art: 'Princess Baryatinskaya's Ball', by Grigori Grigorevich Gagarin (1810-1893). Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. keywords: Europe Russia Literature Translated Pushkin World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case more closely, and more imaginatively, than anyone before her. Her brilliant detective work unearths fascinating, revealing details, including a button missing from Pushkin's Kamerjunker uniform. 'Pushkin's Button will keep all constituencies of reader fastened to their seats, as they watch Petersburg's lofty denizens leave no moment of the hurtling Pushkin scandal unrecorded or not speculated on.'--Monika Greenleaf, Los Angeles Times. '[A] deliciously entertaining whydunit, a book in which every page seduces with a riddle. Vivacious, seductive, original.'--Michael Dirda, Washington Post. 'A delightful combination of retrograde pleasures (court balls, the demise of a doomed genius) and primary sources. Illuminating.'--Richard Lamb, New York Times Book Review. 'A book almost impossible to put down.'--George Steiner, New Yorker. inventory #26609. …

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.