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Second-Hand Time. The Last of the Soviets
$800.00
Alexievich, Svetlana
London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016. First UK edition. A paperbound original.
Signed to the title page by the author, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, and dated in the latinate style as is her wont. Not to be confused with the 2024 Fitzcarraldo edition, limited to 1000 copies signed on a bookplate.
Few small finger smudges, else fine in wrappers.
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