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To Build a Castle.: My Life as a Dissenter.
by BUKOVSKY, Vladimir
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: André Deutsch,, 1978. This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Mr. Jan Beer, with the best wishes, V. Bukovsky, April, 16, 1982, Cambridge". This title is scarce inscribed. Mr Beer is potentially John Beer (1926-2017), British literary critic and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge. To Build a Castle was published in Russian the following year under the title And the Wind Returns, by Chalidze in New York. A Soviet dissident, human rights campaigner, and vehement critic of Vladimir Putin, Bukovsky exposed the Soviet use of psychiatry against political prisoners, having himself spent a total of 12 years in Soviet prisons, labour camps, and psychiatric hospitals. Bukovsky moved to Cambridge after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1976, and resided there until his death in 2019. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine just bumped, tiny mark to fore edge. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, corners a touch rubbed and nicked.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157331
- Title
- To Build a Castle.
- Author
- BUKOVSKY, Vladimir
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: André Deutsch,
- Date Published
- 1978
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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