The Ransom of Russian Art
by McPhee, John A
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374246823
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246822
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. Cloth, 181 pages, colour illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In the 1960's and 1970's, American professor Norton Dodge forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground 'unofficial' artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it shipped illegally to the United States. John McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other" - Publisher. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010517
- Title
- The Ransom of Russian Art
- Author
- McPhee, John A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0374246823
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246822
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Patronage / Individual Collectors; Russian & Slavic; Art Market;
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About LEFT COAST BOOKS
Established in Santa Barbara, California, in 2004, Left Coast Books specializes in ART BOOKS, offering thousands of titles on painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, design, photography, film, video, and performance art. We also sell classics, literature, history, and a broad variety of useful academic books.
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