London: Chatto & Windus Ltd, 2009 Book. Very Good. Grey Cloth Boards. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Novel which moves from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early 20th centuryto Paris in the twenties and thirties and eastern Eon the eve of war. 216pp. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight forward lean to spine and tiny mark to top edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions in near fine unclipped dustwrapper..

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IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder , Le Bal , The Courilof Affair , All Our Worldly Goods and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as of the recent posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood . The Dogs and the Wolves , now appearing for the first time in English, was published in France in spring 1940, just months before France fell to the Nazis. Némirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Washburn Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015902
Title: The Dogs and the Wolves
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10: 0701181303
ISBN 13: 9780701181307
Publisher: Chatto & Windus Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾

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