Description
Signed first edition of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons.
Octavo, ix, 658pp. Brown cloth, title in silver on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Some dust along top edge of text block, clean text throughout. In publisher’s dust jacket, lightly toned spine, fold through spine, some chipping along top edge, $3.50 retail price, an overall attractive example. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Most cordially, Eugene Lyons. Oct. 8, 1937.”
Journalist Eugene Lyons spent six years in the Soviet Union, one of a few approved foreign correspondents allowed to cover the Stalin regime. Assignment in Utopia describes how the author refused to “see the obvious,” and continued to report what the Soviet sensors wished him to write, not the reality happening in front of him.
