FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
1925
First American Edition
E.P. Dutton & Company [New York]
8vo
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Orange cloth]
Item Number: 7546
$70.00
Description
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the Russian Far Eastern Republic, before being jailed for two years. A very good copy, light edge wear, partly uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, in chipped dust jacket (360 pages.)