Bookplate to front free endpaper. Light soil top edge. Jacket price-clipped and has sticker remnant on the front flap, chipped at the spine ends (also a small tear at the tail), and toned along the spine. Two-inch tear along front flap from the top corner. Protected now in a new Mylar archival cover. Second volume in the Oxford Russian Readers series. Introduction to Russian literature for fairly elementary and more advance students of Russian. Six authors included in this volume: Pushkin, Lermentov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, their stories in Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). 240 pa... View More...
Red cloth with gilt ruling and black labels with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Slight wear visible to boards, the dust jacket is price-clipped and has a minor amount of wear and some faint foxing. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. 322 pages followed by a complete list of Modern Library titles, which are also listed inside the jacket. No date, but circa 1950s. View More...
A nice, clean copy of the author's second book, a collection of short stories that won the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award. 288 pages with illustrations by Luis Jimenez. View More...
Mild shelf wear. The dust jacket has some wear and rubbing at the spine ends and a crease on the front flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Modern Library no. 283. [xxii] 328 pages followed by a list of Modern Library Giants titles. 385 series titles are also printed on the inside of the dust jacket. View More...
Mild shelf wear. Small stain or discoloration to the top edge of the page block. The dust jacket is edge-worn and the price scribbled out on the front flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Modern Library no. 14. [xi] 489 pages followed by a complete list of Modern Library titles, which are also printed on the inside of the dust jacket. View More...
Slight fore-edge waviness to the page block. Otherwise fine in a fine jacket. Inscribed by the author to the previous owner on the title page (using the full page), accompanied by a drawing on the facing page. Bookstore flyer and bookmark laid in. "A collection of stories which encompass the brittle dreams of a teenage boxer, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, a manic-depressive adolescent's passion for the heroine of "Tom Jones", an unemployed man's experiments with mice, and a Vietnam veteran's night-time swim across the English Channel." View More...
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