ANTON CHEKHOV. Lydia Avilov: Chekhov in the Life. A Love Story. Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack, and with drawings and a dust wrapper design by Lynton Lamb

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ANTON CHEKHOV. Lydia Avilov : Chekhov in the Life. A Love Story. Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack, and with drawings and a dust wrapper design by Lynton Lamb

John Lehmann Ltd., London, 1950

First English edition (first printing). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in. 8vo. 152pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's blue top edge stain. With a title page portrait decoration (adapted from a painting by Chekhov's brother) and fifteen chapter header illustrations. A strip of light narrow browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in very lightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little internal browning. A very good copy of the first English edition of Lydia Avilov's posthumously published and somewhat controversial memoir of her secret decade-long relationship with Anton Chekhov.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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