Harry Timbres; Rebecca Timbres; George Gillett Whitney [illus.]

We Didn't Ask Utopia: A Quaker Family in Soviet Russia [Signed]

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939. Very Good. Item #13194

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939. First Edition. Signed by Rebecca Janney Timbres without inscription on half title. Octavo; [xiv], 290pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. Map endpapers and blue topstain. Boards faded and toned along edges and joints, with some dust-soiling so cloth. Spine cocked and faded with some scuffs to lettering. Endpapers toned along gutters. Previous owner's name in pencil at top of front free endpaper and half title, else pages unmarked. Foxing to fore-edge. Opens easily between gatherings, but binding is secure.

Letters (Harry) and journals (Rebecca) of an American Quaker couple who returned to live in Russia in 1936 after working there in famine relief 14 years prior.

Price: $50.00