JOURNEY INTO THE BLUE.
by Rab, Gustav
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a fair only dust jacket (tears the length of the spine of the dj) /fair only
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Pantheon,, (1960). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a fair only dust jacket (tears the length of the spine of the dj) . First US printing. A novel set in 1952 and based on the events of the Communist takeover of Hungary four years earlier. His first novel to appear in English, this was written in secret during the seven years he spent in the "puszta," a pilot socialist community on the edge of the great Hungarian desert, dedicated to the raising of pigs. Translated from the French by Peter Green. 381 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79398
- Title
- JOURNEY INTO THE BLUE.
- Author
- Rab, Gustav
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a fair only dust jacket (tears the length of the spine of the dj)
- Jacket Condition
- fair only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1960)
- Keywords
- hungary, socialism, communism, first novel in english,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in translation;
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