Stated first American edition. Jacket has light shelfwear, but is brodarted

Stated first American edition. Jacket has light shelfwear, but is brodarted and not clipped. Erased pencil price on FFEP. Text clean, binding sound. Remainder mark on top of pageblock.

New York: Random House, 1983. First American edition. First printing (with

New York: Random House, 1983. First American edition. First printing (with number line to 2, per Random House practice at the time to indicate a first printing, with FIRST AMERICAN EDITION centered below number line). Hardcover. Quarter dark blue over light blue paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap ($16.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 369 pages. Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. A political alternate history in which Crimea secedes from Soviet rule to form a democratic capitalist republic. Vassily Aksyonov (19322009) was among the leading figures of post-Stalin Russian literature, known for his sharp wit and Western-leaning satire. His major works include "The Burn" (1975), "Generations of Winter" (1992), and "Say Cheese! " (1983), many of which were banned in the USSR before his emigration. "The Island of Crimea" was the first of his novels to appear in English translation and established his international reputation as a dissident voice of late-Soviet fiction.