HINDUS, Maurice. Red Bread
HINDUS, Maurice. Red Bread. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. With numerous black and white plates within. A very good copy, gilt to backstrip dulled, the corners and spine tips gently pushed, the binding tight and square, the topstain bright. The contents fine despite some faint spots to textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped ($3.50 net) and gently chipped and nicked to most edges and corners, the joints rubbed with some small loss to front panel top corner, spine head and tail, but nevertheless uncommon.
A detailed account of Russian peasantry in around 1930. Hindus was born in Russia and was, for most of his childhood, impoverished. His mother took the children to America, and Hindus eventually attended university and became engrossed in both journalism and his homeland. In 1929-30, he spent several months there studying the effects of Stalin’s collectivization plans and this volume, alongside a handful of others, is the result. Hindus went on to become a leading global journalist on Russia and helped to keep the US and the Soviet Union (somewhat) allies, separating the Kremlin and its decisions and the Russian people.
HINDUS, Maurice. Red Bread. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. With numerous black and white plates within. A very good copy, gilt to backstrip dulled, the corners and spine tips gently pushed, the binding tight and square, the topstain bright. The contents fine despite some faint spots to textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped ($3.50 net) and gently chipped and nicked to most edges and corners, the joints rubbed with some small loss to front panel top corner, spine head and tail, but nevertheless uncommon.
A detailed account of Russian peasantry in around 1930. Hindus was born in Russia and was, for most of his childhood, impoverished. His mother took the children to America, and Hindus eventually attended university and became engrossed in both journalism and his homeland. In 1929-30, he spent several months there studying the effects of Stalin’s collectivization plans and this volume, alongside a handful of others, is the result. Hindus went on to become a leading global journalist on Russia and helped to keep the US and the Soviet Union (somewhat) allies, separating the Kremlin and its decisions and the Russian people.
HINDUS, Maurice. Red Bread. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s patterned red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. With numerous black and white plates within. A very good copy, gilt to backstrip dulled, the corners and spine tips gently pushed, the binding tight and square, the topstain bright. The contents fine despite some faint spots to textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped ($3.50 net) and gently chipped and nicked to most edges and corners, the joints rubbed with some small loss to front panel top corner, spine head and tail, but nevertheless uncommon.
A detailed account of Russian peasantry in around 1930. Hindus was born in Russia and was, for most of his childhood, impoverished. His mother took the children to America, and Hindus eventually attended university and became engrossed in both journalism and his homeland. In 1929-30, he spent several months there studying the effects of Stalin’s collectivization plans and this volume, alongside a handful of others, is the result. Hindus went on to become a leading global journalist on Russia and helped to keep the US and the Soviet Union (somewhat) allies, separating the Kremlin and its decisions and the Russian people.