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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. A square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. Illustrated with drawings by B. Vinokurov. Bound in the original pictorial green cloth. From the foreword: "In a word, my purpose has been to tell you about the first steps of a young Soviet school-teacher, her successes and mistakes, her quests and reflections, her joys and disappointments; how she teaches the children and herself learns in the process, and how great is a gratification she derives from her calling." Printed in the USSR. . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hard Cover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Vinokurov, B.. 8vo. 344pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Moscow:: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. A clean, tight copy. The Dust Jacket has just a little wear at the edges. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, as well as twin title page drawings and a full-color, wrap-around DJ painting of a boat and river scene. Pages are fresh and crisp. English language edition of a Russian novel that won the 1950 Stalin Prize. Bound in the original pale blue cloth, decorated/lettered in dark blue and white. From the Dust Jacket: "FLOATING STANITSA is a tale of post-war life in a small collective fishery on the Don, about Soviet fishermen who replace the old predatory fishing methods by new and progressive ones. The book highlights the achievements of Soviet pisciculturists and the joint efforts of fisheries and piscicultural research institutions... [The author] lives on the Don, and is a great friend of Cossack fishermen, whose life forms the chief subject of his writings." A volume… Read More

Moscow:: Foreign Languages Publishing House A clean, tight copy. The Dust Jacket has just a little wear at the edges. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, as well as twin title page drawings and a DJ painting of a maritime scene. Pages are fresh and crisp. English language edition of a novel set in the Soviet Union during WW2. No year of publication is indicated (but early 1950s?). Bound in the original blue cloth, decorated/lettered in black and shiny gold. From the Dust Jacket: "HEART OF A FRIEND is the poetical story of a great love. Pavel Akimov, a battle-hardened officer, and Anichka Belozyorova, a young interpreter who volunteered for the front, meet during the Great Patriotic War... Akimov, who began the war as a sailor, is commander of an infantry battalion. Later he returns to the navy and takes part in the liberation of Norway [where he is killed before he has a chance to see his new daughter, Katya]...… Read More

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is a little rubbed at the edges. A square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author, and with full wrap-around jacket art, as well as a few b/w vignette sketches in the text (artist uncredited). Winner of the 1950 Stalin Prize. A pretty blue silk ribbon page-marker is sewn into the headband. Top edge tinted blue. Bound in the original blue cloth, decorated in dark blue and shiny gold on the spine. Lettered in dark blue on the front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "KUZNETSK LAND, first published in 1948, is the first major work by the Soviet author Alexander Voloshin. Its action takes place in the Kuznetek coal basin in the period between 1945 and 1947. The Kuznetsk basin was developed in Western Siberia during the first five-year plan and is now an important iron and steel… Read More

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is a little rubbed at the edges. A square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author, and with full wrap-around jacket art, as well as a few b/w vignette sketches in the text (artist uncredited). Winner of the 1950 Stalin Prize. A pretty blue silk ribbon page-marker is sewn into the headband. Top edge tinted blue. Bound in the original blue cloth, decorated in dark blue and shiny gold on the spine. Lettered in dark blue on the front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "KUZNETSK LAND, first published in 1948, is the first major work by the Soviet author Alexander Voloshin. Its action takes place in the Kuznetek coal basin in the period between 1945 and 1947. The Kuznetsk basin was developed in Western Siberia during the first five-year plan and is now an important iron and steel… Read More

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is a little rubbed at the edges. A square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author, and with full wrap-around jacket art, as well as a few b/w vignette sketches in the text (artist uncredited). Winner of the 1950 Stalin Prize. A pretty blue silk ribbon page-marker is sewn into the headband. Top edge tinted blue. Bound in the original blue cloth, decorated in dark blue and shiny gold on the spine. Lettered in dark blue on the front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "KUZNETSK LAND, first published in 1948, is the first major work by the Soviet author Alexander Voloshin. Its action takes place in the Kuznetek coal basin in the period between 1945 and 1947. The Kuznetsk basin was developed in Western Siberia during the first five-year plan and is now an important iron and steel… Read More

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Clean and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. 1955 English language edition of a book originally published in Russian in 1953. First Edition in English (no additional printings listed). A history of Russian doctors and scientists who battled plague, cholera, and other diseases. Gives profiles of Danilo Samoilovich, Grigory Nikolayevich Minkh, Vladimir Aaronovich Khavkin, Nokolai Fyodorovich Gamaleya, Vladislav Ivanovich Turchinovich-Vyzhnikevich, Ippolite Alexandrovich Deminsky, Daniel Kirillovich Zabolotny, Magdalina Petrovna Pokrovkaya, Abram Lvovich Berlin, Nikolai Nikolayevich Zhukov-Verezhnikov, Nina Kuzminichna Zavyalova, etc. Illustrated with a portrait of each. Bound in the original dark green cloth, decorated/lettered in white and black. From the Dust Jacket: "Alexander Sharov's… Read More

Moscow:: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, and with numerous full-page b/w plates by B. Semyonov. Top edge tinted yellow. Bound in the original bevel-edged green cloth, lettered in white and shiny gold. Handsomely decorated on the spine and front cover with dark green foliage and sprigs of pine needles/cones. From the author's autobiographical preface: "Much factual material has been used in this novel, and Professor Manteufel, the scientific editor of the book, has verified the descriptions of bird and animal life down to the last detail, no less strictly than he used to do when I was a little girl. The authorities whom I consulted on bee-keeping, swine-breeding, and so on, were equally exacting. I tried, it is true, only to write about what I had intimate knowledge of. The work on the diet of frogs, the… Read More