Zamyatin, Yevgeny (1970) ‘We’, UK first edition

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970) ‘We‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Jonathan Cape.

Condition: a fine book in a very good dust jacket. The book is unread and like new. The dust jacket has slight rubbing to the front panel left of the ‘W’ as pictured. Slight edge wear to spine tips. Not price clipped showing the original £1.75 net price.

An absolute landmark novel of dystopian science fiction that had a huge influence on Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ (1932) and George Orwell’s ‘1984’ (1949). Originally published in the US as a translation in 1924 as the Soviets would not have allowed such a book to ever get published. Russian speakers had to wait until 1988 when Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika policy allowed the novel to be published along with the aforementioned books.