GÓRKY, Máxim (novel); LINDEN, A. (translation)

Three of Them

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); brick red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; [4],384pp. Hint of sunning to spine, oxidation to spine gilt, with faint foxing to text edge and endpapers; contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper (H.B. Blauvelt, Oradell NY, Mar.14, 1923); penciled signature beneath erased, with erasure evident to extensive penciled notes on rear pastedown; Very Good+.

English language translation of Gorky's 1901 novel. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev, a boy from an urban slum who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption.

Price: $50.00

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