About this title: The fascinating memoir of a journalist who in 1988 went to the Soviet Union to write about it . . . and fell in love with both Russia and an extraordinary woman. Sensing that something was happening in the land of Mikhail Gorbachev, Jo Durden-Smith became a part of the lives of a number of Russians, including Yelena, the woman he was to marry.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Good in Good jacket. First Edition. 229-Z Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 318 Pages. Measures: 5-3/4" x 8-3/4" Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. Not an Ex-library book or a Book Club Edition. Includes preface, 11 chapters, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf, N. Y.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws.......The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear..............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1994,
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine beige pictorial dj. 318 pp. with preface, 11 chapters, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. The story of the author's fascination with Russia beginning in the early months of glasnost. He met an interpreter for the Soviet film industry, fell in love and married her and they and their daughter ended up living outside Moscow. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: VG/VG. 0394582578. True story of a man who fell in love with his Russian translator, and the Russia. Ex Library with all the marks and stickers.; Ex-Library; 8vo. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BE5-A hard cover first American edition book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in dark red paper covered boards quarter bound in tan cloth with gold lettering on the spine and front and a gold graphic on the front with very minor overall shelf wear plus a remainder mark on the top outside paper edges. The dust jacket is in very good condition with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light edge wear around the spine top ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Fine in Fine Plus jacket. STATED FIRST EDITION. Book has deckled edges. Text and covers are tight and unmarked. Minor shelfwear to top and bottom of book spine. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear to top edge else fine plus. Portrait style picture of books subject on back of DJ. SHIPPING INCLUDES ID TRACKING WITHIN U.S. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. A 318 page memoir of how the author met his wife in Russia. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear mylar cover. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: VG+/VG+ W/Dust Jacket 318pgs DJ rubbed/scratched on rear cover & a 1/4"red dot on bottom page ends, o.w. clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, DJ tears etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0394582578. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394582573ISBN:0394582578
Description: Fine/Fine Like New! W/Dust Jacket 318pgs Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0394582578. read more
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Cloth spine & boards, fine in d/w, pp. xii, 318. ISBN 0-394-58257-8. The author travelled to Russia to write an article for a travel magazine, and ended up marrying a Russian woman and living on the outskirts of Moscow. A fascinating insight into post-communist Russia. read more
Description: Very Good. 0394582578 Very Good-/Very Good p.1994.c.1994 [First Edition]. Dk red bds / beige cloth. 118 pp., (lt. shelf wear, spine slightly cocked) From Publishers Weekly Durden-Smith is angry, so incensed that his raw emotion and loss of perspective make his contentions in these pages tedious and questionable. The West, he argues, missed the opportunity to advance Russian reform and instead has pushed the country backward to autocracy, corruption and suspicion. "Western" and "democracy" have ... read more
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