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Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell. Molly Make-Believe. New York: Grosett & Dunlap. Last printing date shown November 1915. Very good copy with dust jacket; Dust jacket has minor wear, inclduing pull at tip of spine and a small pieve missing from back. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper.
Back of jacket has lengthy list of titles available from G&D. See photos.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co. [1982]. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition: there is age spotting along edges. A significant anthology in Soviet literary history.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Undated, probably early fifties. 171pp. Dust jacket is chipped at top: see photo. A collection of eight short stories, including the title story, "My First Love Affair", "If I were Rothschild", etc.

Moscow: Progress Publishers [1980]. 413pp. Hardcover with badly ripped dust jacket. Three novellas: "The Divvy"by Alexeyev; "In Bold Type" by Borunov; "Battalion Commander" by Sharipov. I believe these date from a period when the Soviet military felt that war fiction was not toeing their preferred line, and so they looked to their own to produce the correct line. One page was not trimmed, and as a result hangs out quite tattered.

Berkeley Medallion, 222pp. Wrappers. The Alliluyev's made the mistake of thinking that Stalin would appreciate these memoirs that included him in his early days; nearly all of his wife's family ended up being executed.

Hardcover, original brown cloth with gold lettering. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 308pp. Interesting contemporary bookplate on front paste-down, inked name stamped on verso of flyleaf. Includes plates and fold-out maps. Plate VIII, Map of Located Points near Loweâs Path to Mt Adams has water stains, not effecting surrounding pages.

1963 No 2 contains Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day as the lead story, as translated by Ralph Parker, the same translation as the first book appearance in English from Dutton. Also Includes an article by Andrei Sinyavsky on the Poetry of Boris Pasternak, just two years before the Sinyavsky and Daniel trial. Other authors include Gulnazarian, Tkachenko, Soloukhin, Auerbach and Vanshenkin. Loosely inserted is a 16 page speech by L.F. Ilyichov, secretary of the CPSU Central Commitee, from December of 1962, "Creative Work for the People, in the Name of Communism".

Two issues from 1965.No. 1. Includes a play by Samuel Marshak, "Clever Things". An extract from "On the Eve" by Vasili Smirnov, poems by Lukonin, a selection of Isaac Babel's letters; an interview with Arkadi Perventsev.No 2. Stories by Nikolai Chukovsky, Ketlinskaya, Semyonov, Pravdin, poems by Podekkov, etc. 192pp plus black and white plates.

1963 No. 1. Includes "The First Teacher" by Chinghiz Aitmativ, other prose from Tikhonov, Shim, etc. Includes an interesting article by the Magazine "Novy Mir", and a survey of recent publications; Solzhenitsyn's "One Day" is mentioned towards the end, and relatively briefly (at last compared to the controversy it generated): "In its November 1962 issue Novy Mir published the first story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day"". This is a story about people who suffered from artitrary law during the period of Stalin's cult [...]". 172pp.

Four issues from 1964, including an excerpt from Konstantin Simonov's "Soldiers are not Born".No. 9. Stories by Lipatov, Tikhonov, Orlov, an article on Maya Plisetskaya, etc. 192pp.No. 10. Stories includes Vasil Bykov "The Ballad of the Alps", others by Rylenkov, Peskov, and Svirsky; an article by Konstantin Simonov criticizing the Chinese Communist Party.No 11. Devoted to modern literature and art of Kazakhstan. 192pp.No. 12. Includes an except from "Soldiers Are Not Born" by Konstantin Simonov, a continuation of his excellent war novel "The Living and the Dead", and not otherwise published in English as far as I know. Other writings by Rytkheu, Razgovorov, Bokov, etc. 182pp plus plates.

1967 No. 6. A special issue on Russian Poets 1917 - 1967. A collection of poems from 66 different authors. 176pp.