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New York: Liberty Book Club, Inc. [c.1937]. Hardcover with dustjacket in very good condition. ffep has an old price sticker (from the Strand bookstore). Back of jacket has a write-up by Howard Fast, who compares this book with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "As in Mark Twain's book, we see great and terrible events through the eyes of two children, and as with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, these two, Petya and Gavrik, remain with us long after we have finished the last page."

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [c.1969]. vi, 212pp. Translated and with an introduction by Robert Daglish. Memoirs of early Soviet days, Ivan Bunin and Mayakovsky.

Katayev, Valentin. A MosaIc Of Life. Memoirs of a Russian Childhood. [London] Angus and Robertson [1976]. 447p. Translated by Moira Budberg and Gordon Latta.Hardcover, first edition with dust jacket.

Katayev, Valentin. The Holy Well. New York: Walker and Company [1967]. 160p.Translated by Max Hayward and Harold Shukman. Hardcover with dustjacket in very good condition other than a a few crayoned numbers on the front flap and (I think) the front cover: see photo. An innovative novel that made quote a spash in both the Soviet Union and the west,

143pp. Jacket tattered, and with writing on front flap. Winner of the Stalin Prize in 1947. Kazakevich was writer; before the war primarily in Yiddish. In the war he had combat roles, and was the head of an army reconnaissance detachment at the conquest of Berlin. This novel is of a successful mission but subsequent destruction of a reconnaissance unit behind enemy lines. Highly regarded.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 325pp. Hardcover, with dust jacket; first printing in very good condition. Compiled and translated by Gabriella Azrael.

Kopelev, Lev. To Be Preserved Forever.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. [1977]. Translated and edited by Anthony Austin. Published and translated under the auspices of Ardis.Very good condition.

Westport: Hyperion Press [1975]. 238pp. Hardbound, blue cloth. White paint (?) spot on front cover; see photo. Originally published in the Soviet Union in 1938; the author was killed in action in 1941.