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15 LET PERVOI KONNOI ARMII. Ogonek spetsial’nyi nomer.
by Mikhail Kol'tsov, ed.
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- Used - Fine
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- First and only
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- 1935
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,700.00
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Quarto 29.5x22.5 cm., stiff wrappers, 114 pp. A special number of Ogonek celebrating 15 years of the First Red Cavalry. Full cover design by N. Zhukov, with photos by Giorgii Zel'ma, A. Bunimovich, D. Debabov, M. Markov, A. Skurikhin. Graphics by Boris Efimov, V. Mikhailov, A. Chernomordik. Articles by Voroshilov, Budenny, the poet Kirsanov, inter alia. OCLC locates holdings at… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,700.00
Izbrannye stikhi, V perevodakh russkikh poetov
by Volodimir Sosiura
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- Used - Fine
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- First
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,100.00
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Octavo 17.5x12.5 cm., wrappers, 112 pp., 2000 copies. Foreword by M. Ravich-Cherkasskii. Bagritsky translated a majority of these poems. Volodymyr Sosiura (1898-1965) is recognized as one of Ukraine's most important lyric poets. A party member from early on, he was twice expelled for "nationalistic overtones" in his work and was forced to undergo "re-education" as a factory worker from 1930-1931.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,100.00
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OTCHET IZBIRATELIAM 1931-1934. Materialy o rabote Leninskogo raionnogo soveta RK I KD, Moskva
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- First and only
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- 1934
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$2,700.00
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Quarto 26.5x18 cm., wrappers, 112pp., with 26.5x17 cm. foldout. Cover and book design by Nikolai Sedel'nikov and V. Ignatovich. The book addresses the work done to develop the Lenin District of Moscow, its communal economy, cultural objectives, etc. The Leninsky District was an administrative unit that existed from 1930 to 1991. Nikolai Sedel'nikov (1904-1995) was a highly talented graphic designer… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,700.00
VOZNIKNOVENIE GORODA. Stikhotvorenaia – povest’.
by Vladimir Zavodchikov
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- First and only
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- 1931
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Octavo 18x13 cm., boards, 48pp. Cover design by N.O. Iakubovyi Munts. Vladimir Pavlovich Zavodnikov (1904-1969) was a Komsomol poet and war correspondent. The present work, The Emergence of the City, includes photographs of urban building in various stages. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (Stanford, Ohio State Univ). A fine copy. Item Price
$750.00
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ZELTA GRAMATA. Veltijuimi Nikolaja Rericha Piedesmit Gadu Radosajai Darbibai un Balitjas Valstu Rericha Biedribu Pirmajai Sakasmei 10-X-1937
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- Used
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- First and only
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- 1938
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- Full morocco
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Quarto 24x15 cm., original wrappers bound in full morocco 24.5x17 cm., 246pp.
With 7 pasted-in illustrations including frontispiece. The book is printed on laid paper. Title page in Latvian, texts in Russian, Latvian, English and other languages. On October 10 and 11, 1937, a congress of Roerich societies of the Baltic countries was held in Riga, dedicated to the 50th anniversary… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Komediia o Tsare Maksimiliane i nepokorem syne ego Adolfe.
by V.V. Bakrylov
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1921
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,950.00
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Quarto (27x18.5 cm.), original wrappers, 96pp. Vladimir Vasil'evich Bakrylov (1892-1922) was a writer and journalist appointed by Lunacharsky to the Ministry of Public Education and later to the Commissar of state theaters in Petrograd to "liquidate sabatoge" among the actors. He became fascinated by Russian theater history, and in particular an old comedy about the pagan monarch who tries to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kolonii Krichat (The Colonies Cry Out)
by Anatol Gidash
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First
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- 1933
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$2,150.00
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Quarto 30x22 cm., cloth, 51 pp., 21 plates. Frontispiece by Hugo Gellert; color plates of work by P.V. Viliams. Antál Hidás (Hungarian, né Gyula Spitzer 1899-1980) wrote under a variety of names. He wrote in Hungarian and Russian. Hidás wrote agit-poetry in the interwar period, moving to Socialist Realism thereafter. A lifelong revolutionary, he spent several years in Moscow and… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,150.00
V mire muzyki
by A.V Lunacharsky
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- First
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- 1923
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$800.00
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Quarto 22.5x15 cm., wrappers, 91 pp. 5000 copies. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharskii (1875-1933) was an oversize cultural figure in the first decade of the Revolution, although he wielded little political influence. Initially installed as the Commissar of Enlightenment, He was the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar responsible for the ministry of Education, and was an active playwright, critic, essayist and journalist.… Read more about this item Item Price
$800.00
Makar Chudra
by Maxim Gorky
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- First
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- 1919
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,100.00
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Large octavo 20.5x14.5 cm., wrappers, 19pp. Cover and two full-page illustrations by Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939). Typography in pre-revolutionary orthography. Makar Chudra is the author's second story, published in a Tiflis journal in 1892. A tale of bewitching love, murder and retribution with a visionary close has lent it to various adaptations.
Strong artwork by Vladislav Khodasevich, known primarily for his poetry… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,100.00
Kurorty Kryma. Spravochnik.
by (Rodchenko) Dr. N.I. Teziakov, L.G. Gol'dfile, eds.
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,500.00
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Octavo17x12.5 cm., wrappers, 190 pp. Cover design by Aleksandr Rodchenko. Crimea was a health and vacation spot for the upper classes from Tsarist times. After the Civil War it was designated as a Vserossiiskaia Zdravnitsa (All-Russian Health Resort). The palatial estate of the Tsar and family members were nationalized and converted in sanitoriums and doma otdykha (R & R resorts)… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
Novaia Russkaia Kniga 1922
by A.S, Iashchenko, ed.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First and only
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- 1922
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- Original wrappers bound in publisher's cloth
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$750.00
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Large quarto 27.2x18.5 cm, original wrappers bound in publisher's 1/2-cloth containing 12 numbers for the year 1922, the complete issue for that year. in two volumes. The cloth binding worn, spine rubbed; the contents of wrappers and interior as new. It also contains adverts of numerous emigre Russian presses and their releases during the period. Of high possible collectibility for… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Rerikh
by Vsevolod N. Ivanov; Emil Gollerbakh; Artist editor A.M Prande
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- Used
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- First and only (all published)
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- 1939
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,600.00
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Uncommon, large monograph published by the Roerich Society founded in Riga, Latvia. It is the first and only published part of what was to be a larger series, which was curtailed with the Soviet invasion of Latvia soon after the book's release. It is an extensive coverage of Roerich's oeuvre, with primary focus on his work in the Himalayas and… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,600.00
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PRIKLIUCHENIIA STOLA I STULA
by Samuil Marshalk
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- Used - Very Good+
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- The only edition with this artist, first thus.
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- 1928
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,250.00
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Uncommon Marshak-Tsekhanovsky collaboration
Octavo 19x14 cm., wrappers, 10 pp. 30,000 copies. Illustrated by M. Tsekhanovskii. The first printing in 1924 had artwork by Boris Kustodiev. Samuil Marshak (1187-1964) enjoys a worldwide readership for his writings for children and adults, which have been translated in many languages. He collaborated with modernist artists and illustrators of note in the 1920s and 30s.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
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Sovetskoe iskusstvo.(Soviet Art)
by R.A. Pel'she, ed.
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- First
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- 1927
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$550.00
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Quarto 27x18cm., wrappers, 79(1) pp. Year 3, No. 3. 3000 copies. Sovetskoe iskusstvo was published from 1925 to 1929. It drew on some of the top-notch artists, writers and musicians and covered all aspects of modernist art, including from abroad. Its contributors include Anatoly Lunacharskii, N. Maslennikov, the composer N. Roslavets, R.A. Pel'she, A. Sidorov, S.M. Tret'iakov, inter alia. The… Read more about this item Item Price
$550.00
Nebo goluboe. Stikhi.
by Sologub, Fedor
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1921
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$450.00
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Reval (Estonia), Bibliofil', 1921 Octavo, wrappers, 88pp. Sologub (1863-1927) was a symbolist poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. He achieved earlier fame but experienced great privation in the early years of the revolution when his books weren't published. The first edition of this collection of poems, "Blue Sky" which the poet completed in a temporary move to Estonia in 1921. The… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
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Clement Redko
by Andrei Lounacharsky and Andre Salmon
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1930
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$700.00
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Paris: ARS, 1930 Quarto, wrappers, 20pp., 18 plates. 210 copies, this unnumbered. Kliment Nikolaevich Redko (1897-1956) studied under Aleksandra Ekster and worked in a suprematist mode and fully engaged in the avant-garde, which included working in the early revolutionary era and decorating streets with agit-prop elements. Later he spent 7 years in Paris evolving from a modernist to quasi impressionist… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.00
Troitsa
by Nikolai Shebuev (Vsevelod Pudovkin, illus)
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1922
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,500.00
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Moscow: the author, 1922 Quarto, wrappers, 32pp. Cover and 3 full-page drawings by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) famed film director and actor who also did book illustrations on his early years. Shebuev (1874-1937) was a publisher, journalist, playwright and novelist, known for his satire. He is famous for attacking the Tsar in the events leading to the 1905 revolution. Released in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Abesalom i Eteri. Opera v 4-x deistviiakh.
by (Irakli Gamrekeli, art) Mikeladze, Evgenii
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1936
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$250.00
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Tbilisi: Lit. Gruzgiza, 1936 Small quarto, wrappers, 32pp. An program for the opera written by Georgian composer Mikeladze, with stage designs reproduced in full page color by Gamrekeli who also designed the cover. Gamrekeli (1894-1943) was a participant of the avant-garde in the USSR who created many works for the stage and for a time was highly experimental. Although the… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Krasin vo l'dakh.
by E.L. Mindlin
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 3rd Edition
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$800.00
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Quarto 22x17.5 cm., wrappers, 32pp. Cover design by A. Shcherbakov, page design and montages by P. Suvorov. 10,000 copies. A young reader’s book on exploration of the far northern USSR from the constructivist era, with strong title page design and multiple typefaces on every page. OCLC finds 6 copies of the three editions in North American institutions. A near fine… Read more about this item Item Price
$800.00
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Protsess o 3.000.000 (A Trial about Three Million)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1926
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- Soft cover
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$850.00
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Moscow: Mospoligraf, 1926 Oblong quarto 15x23 cm., wrappers, 71(1)pp. Prospectus for a film directed by Iakov Portazanov. Photomontage cover and interior illustrations. Glavlit 68634. Worldcat finds OCLC, Columbia holdings in North America. This copy very good with slight corner chip on front cover. Item Price
$850.00
