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A Russian Journal
by Steinbeck, John; Capa, Robert (Photographer)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York, New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Capa, Robert. The famed author's "penetrating & affectionate account" of his travels among the people of the U.S.S.R, in 220 pages with black-and-white photos throughout by Robert Capa. A FIRST EDITION from Apr. 1948, with statement of the simultaneous Canadian printing, this hardcover small 4to has blue-green cloth over boards with a greenish-yellow cloth wrapping the spine, lettered in deeper blue to front & spineCondition is Good, marred by dark stain to slightly below center of front board, with darkening around edges, soiling. Interior is very clean: pages creamy white & unmarked, hinges secure, binding strong & straight. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune . This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there … the private life of the Russian people." Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II—represented here in Capa’s stirring photographs alongside Steinbeck’s masterful prose. Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle. This edition features an introduction by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022513
- Title
- A Russian Journal
- Author
- Steinbeck, John; Capa, Robert (Photographer)
- Illustrator
- Capa, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- RUSSIA USSR RUSSIANS TRAVEL MEMOIR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Travel-Exploration-Adventure;
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