Description
Carynnyk, Marco (Ed. & Trans.); Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956), et al. Alexander Dovzhenko: The Poet As Filmmaker; Selected Writings. Cambridge, MA & London, UK: The MIT Press, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. ISBN: 9780262040372. pp. lv, 323. 8vo. Publisher’s lilac cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of Dovzhenko. No detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, neat ink name and sticker offset to the endpapers, text-block entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good, unclipped, lightly rubbed dustajcket showing light wear along the panels (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state. Hardcover. A scarce offering comprising of Dovzhenko’s autobiography, notebooks (diary and war-journal), essays and a detailed filmography. (#5852) $139.00
