About this title: In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Bely plays ingeniously on the great themes of Russian history and literature as he tells the mesmerizing tale of Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, a high-ranking Tsarist official, and his dilettante son, Nikolai, an aspiring terrorist, whose first assignment is to assassinate his father.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802131584ISBN:0802131581
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Very Good. Tight book, nice text, some wear to cover and edges, creasing on cover and spine, some pen underlining books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
Description: NY: Evergreen / Grove Press, 1989. 310 pages. Trade paperback. Translated from Russian, with an introduction, by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey. Would have been Near Fine, but there is pencil underlining scattered throughout. Bright and tight, no names or spine creases. ISBN: 0802131581. read more
Description: Acceptable. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Acceptable condition-only fair condition with signs of extensive handling and use. Dj poor with major tears and missing segments. In sealed plastic protection. 1959. Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1959-01-01
Description: Very Good. No names, no remainder marks. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. No DJ. BCE. Corners and edges slightly rubbed and bumped. Sticker inside front. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Octavo. xxii + 310 pages. Translated by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey. Spine creased, covers worn, underlining and marginal notations on most pages, else a good copy. From the library of retired Professor of English (and creative writing) Dale H. Edmonds (Tulane University) with his signature, underlining and marginal notes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1959
ISBN-13:9780802131584ISBN:0802131581
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. 0.84" x 8.24" x 5.35". Small pencil notation front & stampmark, reading 'Gift. ' Binding tight, pages clean, except tops dusty. DJ fully intact, but worn & chipped at edges. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1/25/1994
ISBN-13:9780802131584ISBN:0802131581
Description: Good. REPRINT: FIRST PRINTING: **EX-LIBRARY with all the usual markings** Trade Paperback: Published by Grove Press Publishing Group. Wraps show wear. Spine creased; binding tight. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Professionally and securely packaged, with Tracking Number. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good. Very good hardcover. No dJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with minor rubbing/soiling. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Description: Very good. First edition (Grove Press, 1959). Hardcover. Text unmarked. Binding tight. Jacket has edge wear, chips at spine ends. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1959
ISBN-13:9780802131584ISBN:0802131581
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. 310 pgs vg/fine condition as is the red cloth cover w/bright gold embossing on spine; dj shows wear and has sticker mark. First published in 1913, this is the first English publication, (the first of Biely's novels to be published in English). read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paper wrappers (paperback).
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Trans. with an intro by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey. A few underlines to the introduction, otherwise very good clean crisp copy. xxii, 310 pp. Trade format. Nabokov was wild about it and called it "one of the four great masterpieces of twentieth-century prose. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has one tiny tear, hint of edgecreasing, very minor rubbing to spine. Fine/Near Fine. read more
Edition: 1ST U.S. ED.
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Jacket. Fine, but for bumping to lower corner, in very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket, with barely noticeable short tear on front panel--externally mended. Translated by John Cournos. read more
Edition: First British Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, pages clean & tight, DJ price-clipped & slightly chipped & protected by mylar cover. Translated with an introduction by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey. Ref. J 007. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc., New York, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: VG/Good. W/Dust Jacket 310 pgs DJ chipped head/foot of spine & stained at top rear spine edge (minor effect on cloth), o.w. clean & tight. No ink names etc. read more
"This is probably one of the most brilliant books I've ever read. It really plays on the very nature of writing, cleverly alluding to Russian literary tradition, semiotics, and meta-fiction. If you've read Dostoyevsky, Puskin, Gogol, and Tolstoy, it makes for an even deeper level of reading. Andrei Bely is a literary genius, and it's a pity he's so little known in the US."
"God, how do you 'rate' a modernist classic... The love child of Gogol and Beckett. Nabokov rated it above Ulysses. But he was Nabokov, so caveat emptor."
"Wonderfully weird. Incredibly Russian. A tongue-in-cheek look at postmodernism (to some extent), but a masterful work of postmodernism in itself. I almost did my thesis on this book...the imagery and insane number of references to anything spherical (a ticking bomb and the rotating, thriving planet are the two driving forces of the story) has stayed with me for years. The translator's notes and the introduction are a MUST read!"
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