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Leningrad, Khudozhestvennaya literature, 1936 .Limited to 10 300 copies. First Akutagawa's book edition in Russia. This short story collection includes: Rasho Gate (羅生門/Rashōmon; 1915), The Handkerchief (手巾/Hankechi; 1916), Monkey (猿/Saru; 1916, no translation into English), Fortune (運/Un; 1917), Mensura Zoili (1917), The Story of a Head That Fell Off (首が落ちた話/ Kubi ga ochita hanashi; 1918), Kesa and Moritō (袈裟と盛遠/Kesa to Moritō; 1918), Hell Screen (地狱变/Jigoku hen; 1918), Mandarins (蜜柑/Mikan; 1919), A Strange Story (妙な話/Myōna hanashi; 1921), Autumn (秋/Aki; 1920), The General (将軍/Shōgun; 1922), おぎん/O-Gin (1922), Gratitude (報恩記/Hōnki; 1922), The Garden (庭/Niwa; 1922), A clod of earth (一塊の土/Ikkai no Tsuchi; 1924), Horse Legs (馬 の脚/Uma no ashi; 1925), A Young Socialist (或社会主義者 /Aru shakai shugi-sha; 1926), Spinning Gears (歯車/Haguruma; 1927), A Fool's Life (或阿呆の一生/Aru Ahō no Isshō;… Read More

This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. Moskva, Detskaya Literatura, 1974.Limited to 300 000 copies. The one and only edition. The story about Sabu, a Japanese boy, was written by Japanese children's book writer Tomiko Inui (1924-2002), who winning a lot of prizes including the Mainishi Publishing Culture Award and the Akaitori Award for Children's Literature. She visited the USSR in 1963 and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen prize in the following year.Illustrations were created by the graphic and poster artist Mariya Uspenskaya (1925-2007). She studied at the Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute under Mikhail Cheremnykh and later worked in the most popular Soviet children's magazine Murzilka.OCLC locates one copy of this edition only: in the Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media (SIKJM). We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA libraries via OCLC.