Father Vikenty [*SIGNED*]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with some minor creasing near the edges here and there]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Jane Novak, / With sincere appreciation and regards, and a / promise to write another book as soon as I can. / Paul Chavchavadze / February 2, 1946." "This is a novel about a Russian Orthodox priest in New York and about his parish, as varied and as multi-colored as Joseph's coat. Father Vikenty had lost his wife and daughter in the Russian Revolution of 1917, a tragedy he did not speak of, but he had never lost his love of wrestling, a tragedy to which he often referred." The author (1899-1971), born a Russian prince, left Russia in 1918 and lived in Romania and England (where he married a Russian princess!) before settling in the U.S. in 1927; in addition to his own books, he notably translated "Only One Year," the 1969 memoir by Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author .