first edition Hardcover
1970 · London
by Zamyatin, Yevgeny; Translation by Bernard Guilbert Guerney and Introduction and Bibliographical Note by Michael Glenny
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine, small corner and edge bumps, prior owner bookplate and blindstamp at front end pages, two small spots fore edge. In a Very Good dust wrapper, small chips and rubs at spine ends and corners. A science fiction classic, one of the the grandfathers of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre, WE was banned in Russia in 1921and first published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in a translation by Gregory Zilboorg. The German TV network ZDF adapted the novel for a TV movie in 1982, under the German title Wir (English: WE)..
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