We (First Edition)

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London: Jonathan Cape, (1970). 8vo. Original cloth-effect hardcover in original price-clipped dust jacket. Pages: 285. First edition.

Overall condition: very good. Dust jacket price-clipped. Otherwise, very good condition. Slight weathering along jacket edges and towards extremities. Well preserved and colours bright. Hardcover boards bound in grey cloth-effect paper with gilt lettering on spine and in very good condition, slight weathering on upper and lower spine edges. Pages in excellent condition. Slight foxing on end papers and along page edges. 

First UK edition. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a dystopian classic comparable to Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World. Given this was written earlier than those titles, it is argued that We played a role in influencing them, though Huxley has denied this. Notably, this was the first book to be banned by the USSR's censorship board in 1921. The manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia and translated into English, becoming a literary classic.

This book is currently on display in the rare books section in our Bondi store.

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