first edition
1950 · New York
by KRAVCHENKO, Victor
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-458,[2 blank] + 30pp appendix. Faint finger-soil to cloth, with some very faint, scattered spotting to covers, and mild foxing to text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75), showing moderate shelfwear, a few tiny nicks and tears, some faint foxing and a few dampstains on verso; Very Good. A volume published after Kravchenko's best-selling I Chose Freedom (1947), chonicling his libel suit against Les Lettres Françaises, a pro-Communist periodical which published a series (truncated)