MAUROIS AndréMareMagnum
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In-4 p., brossura, pp. (130) ca. con 109 riproduzioni in bianco e nero nel testo. In buono stato (good copy).
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 226 coloured illustrations by Gordon Riley, 17 illustrations in monochrome and pictorial endpapers, small signature on front free endpaper verso; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Observer 79. Printing code 0080-1178. Jacket 79. Scarce, especially in this condition. Marren & Carter, p.178.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 254 pages.
331 pages including index. "A picture of Russia today which does not include a description of labor camps and exile is not a true picture; often it is deliberately misleading. The forced labor system of Soviet Russia is not the invention of a diabolic mind; neither is it a temporary anomaly nor a tumor on the body easily removed. The system is an organic element, a normal component, of the social structure... This book seeks to present the natural history of forced labor in Soviet Russia: the first feeble experiments, the successes and failures, the gradual development of the widely ramified system; the early ideas, and the mutations in ideology from humanitarianism to mercilessness." - from preface. Prior owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Pages yellowed at edges. Cigarette smoke odour. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
Paris : Armand Aubrée, [1837-1838]. 2 volumes grands in-8, 266 x 174 : portrait, frontispice, XXXVI, 340 pp. ; frontispice, (2 ff.), 360 pp. Cartonnage imprimé à la bradel de l’éditeur, dos lisse, non rogné. Édition parue en 47 livraisons, imprimée sur papier jésus vélin satiné, illustrée en premier tirage d’un portrait de l’auteur sur chine appliqué gravé sur cuivre par Choubrard d’après Jules David, de deux frontispices également sur cuivre rehaussés de couleurs et d’or, et de 400 vignettes gravées sur bois d’après Jules David. Exemplaire de toute première émission, à toutes marges, comprenant bien le second frontispice daté de 1838, dans son rare cartonnage imprimé de l’éditeur orné de 4 vignettes de David. Au verso figurent les conditions de la souscription de l’ouvrage. Salissures et quelques taches rousses aux cartonnages. Mouillures claires dans tout le premier volume et aux 170 premières pages du second volume. Provenance : Paul Toinet, auteur d’un Répertoire iconographique de Paul et Virginie de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, avec son ex-libris.
