The Thaw

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. First American edition. 230pp., xxxi. Blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles. Boards moderately sunned, irregularly to rear; toning to textblock edges; adhesive offsetting to gutters. About very good in a like jacket, shallowly clipped at all corners but with original "$3.50"… Read more about this item

Harvill, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. 230 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine… Read more about this item

A first US edition, first printing of Ukranian writer and revolutionary Ilya Ehrenburg's novel of the post-Stalin era of liberalization in the Soviet Union. VG, in gorgeous dustjacket but sunned and faded blue paper covered boards. Some chipping and rubbing to top of dustjacket, with $3.50 price intact. With a supplement, the Death of Art by Russell Kirk.

London: Harvill. Controversial Soviet novel . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1955.

MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1961-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2.8179 in x 23.1724 in x 16.6773 in. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding.

Mayflower-Dell , 1966 . Reading copy. Paperback with worn cover & edge, & a 5cm split along the fold of the back cover/spine. The binding remains firm, & text pages are unmarked.