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Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia
by W. Bruce Lincoln
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670875686
- ISBN 13
- 9780670875689
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking , 1998 Viking, New York. 1998. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. From First printing plates. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; light rubbing to panels. Cream paper over boards with red paper overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 511 pp 8vo. The author explores ten centuries of artistic endeavor in a land uniquely suspended between East and West, past and future, sacred and secular. This book tells the stories of Russia's greatest novelists, poets, painters, composers, dancers, architects, and filmmakers as they struggles to extract beauty from their nation's painful life, and shaped the masterpieces that the world now acclaims as purely and uniquely Russian. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Seller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 015995
- Title
- Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia
- Author
- W. Bruce Lincoln
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670875686
- ISBN 13
- 9780670875689
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Russia, Russian Arts, artistic endeavor in Russia, communism, Russian Church, Soviet era, gulags, Russian novelists, Russian poets, Russian painters, Russian composers, Russian dancers, Russian architects, Byzantine Christianity, medieval iconography, cat
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Cold War;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Book Club Edition
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