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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge ***A literary classic, and a very rare to find US 1st edition*** The UK first edition is quite scarce; the US first edition with is very rare, let alone with its original dust jacket. The first US edition rarely comes up for sale. Published in 1950 by Doubleday. First edition, first printing as indicated by First edition on the copyright page. In original black hardcover binding with red lettering. Original first issue dust jacket with correct $3.00 on front flap. 306 pages. Overall Condition: VG/Fair ABOUT THE BOOK A classic and atmospheric novel, set during the Stalin era, filled with suspense, mystery and adventure. A high government official is shot on the street on a cold winter night, and the search for the killer begins. In Victor Serge's panoramic vision of the Stalin era, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence - at least of the crime of which they have been accused. But this, the best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges, is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's Man's Fate and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Victor Serge (French: (December 30, 1890 November 17, 1947), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич), was a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist, poet and historian. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death. Condition: VG/FAIR. N° de ref. del artículo 240203003
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