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The Ransom of Russian Art
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The Ransom of Russian Art Hardcover - 1994

by McPhee, John

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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. First. Hardcover. Fine in dj. 8vo, cloth, 181 pp, 54 illustrations (52 in color). The story of how an American professor bought and had clandestinely shipped to the U.S. thousands of works by dissident Soviet artists during the period 1956-1986.
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  • Title The Ransom of Russian Art
  • Author McPhee, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Fine in dj
  • Pages 181
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 17022
  • ISBN 9780374246822 / 0374246823
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.56 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.42 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Dissident art - Soviet Union, Dodge, Norton T - Art patronage
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94014723
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.47

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About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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