Russian Blood: A Family Chronicle
By Alex Shoumatoff (b. 1946)
Vintage Books
New York
July 1990
Originally published in hardcover by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, New York, 1982.
A considerable portion of the text originally appeared in The New Yorker
x, [4], 312, [2] p.: 2 genealogical charts and 56 unpaginated pages, containing 95 illustrations; 20 cm. (8 inches). Paperback, with glossy, color illustrated front cover, with background art based on 17th century Italian brocaded damask reproduction woven by Preller of Paris, for Guy Evans, London. Includes Notes and Acknowledgments, Index, About the Author, and List of Two Other Titles by Alex Shoumatoff, Published by Vintage Books.
First Vintage Books Edition "In books like African Madness and The Rivers Amazon, Alex Shoumatoff has taken readers to the most remote and fabled corners of the earth. Russian Blood, however, journeys backward in time to disinter the intricately entwined roots of Shoumatoff's own family and to unravel the strands of sentiment and shrewdness, piety and aestheticism, that make up Russianness" [from the back cover].
ISBN: 0679725784 Book is in Near Fine Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.Back cover and about 14 final pages with light upper corner crease, not impacting text in any way.
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