Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$6.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 255 pages. Dj ripped and worn. Name on ffep.
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Joseph Novak. The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. The Bodley Head, 1960.
Price: US$8.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1960. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and some rubbing and marks to surfaces. Spine with mild crushing. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Library number and tape to spine. Boards are bowed.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Joseph Novak. The Future Is Ours, Comrade. Conversations With The Russians. The Bodley Head, 1960.
Price: US$9.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1960. First Published in GB. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.84 + shipping
Description: 255 Seiten. Kaum Lagerspuren. Sehr ordentliches Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 Hardcover/Pappeinband.Schutzumschlag.
Seller: Antiquariat-Plate, Rosendahl, NRW, Germany
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Black paper over the boards with gold lettering on the spine. Black and white pictorial DJ with red lettering. DJ is chipped and torn, some chips missing from the front cover. Now protected by a clear plastic brodart cover. Toned and rubbed as well. The covers of the book are rubbed and bumped, especially around the edges and corners. Bumps to the edges and head and foot of spine. No date on the title page. Copyright page is dated 1960. 255 pages. Binding is strong. Pages inside are toned but clean and unmarked.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.42 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 255; bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, name on half title page, good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$32.40 + shipping
Description: 1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 255pp., A new look at everyday life in the Soviet Union.
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Joseph Novak. The Future is Ours, Comrade": Conversations With The Russians. The Bodley Head, 1960.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition in original jacket. Chipping to edges of jacket, including one that disrupts author's name on front. Some light discoloration on edges from age; clean and crisp inside.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy (writing as Joseph Novak). The Future Is Ours, Comrade. Bodley Head, 1960.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: 255 pages. The author's first book. A look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. First British edition (first printing). Small stain to the bottom of the page block else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to one corner and a few short tears to the edges.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
NOVAK JOSEPH. THE FUTURE IS OURS COMRADE. BODLEY HEAD 1960, 1960.
Price: US$66.92 + shipping
Description: HB BLACK BOARDS VERY GOOD PP255 DW VERY GOOD 8VO Jerzy KosinskiÕs early pseudonymous work
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Price: US$124.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first book by Jerzy Kosinski. Dw very slightly chipped with closed tear to top.
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardcover in DJ protected by clear book jacket cover with 21S net price, first published in Great Britain 1960 as stated, no markings, chipping to rear top edge of DJ, code 3/345 on front inside DJ flap, 255 pages, dust tone to page decks
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Fine in a near fine, lightly spotted, price-clipped dustwrapper. The author's uncommon pseudonymous first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Joseph Novak. THE FUTURE IS OURS, COMRADE. Bodley Head, London, 1960.
Price: US$313.45 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Tears to jacket spine edges.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. "NOVAK, Joseph". The Future is Ours, Comrade. Bodley Head, London, 1960.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first British edition of the author's first book, a pseudonymously published nonfiction account of Russia in the postwar years, predating his first novel, The Painted Bird, by five years. Inscribed by the author as "Jerzy Kosinski" for Hugh Moorhead in 1982. Moorhead was a Philosophy professor at Northeastern Illinois University who wrote to 250 authors to ask them what they thought the meaning of life was, and then published their answers in a depressing book that suggested nobody had much of a clue. Stripe at bottom page edges; very good in a very good dust jacket chipped at the upper front spine fold. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Novak, Joseph. (A. K. A. Jerzy Kosinski). The Future is Ours, Comrade'.. Bodley Head., London, 1960.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition. From the library of distinguished actor/singer Theodore Bikel, with his bookplate on front paste-down. About near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Light foxing to end-papers & paste-downs. Couple mild bumps to corner tips on cloth. Trace of light edge wear to dust jacket. ) Author's Jerzy Kosinski's pseudonymously published FIRST book. Interesting association copy as Theodore Bikel was a notable political activist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.