Selected Short Stories

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. Second revised and enlarged edition, third printing. Hardcover octavo in beige cloth boards. 410 pages; 21 cm Corners are very gently bumped. Very mild soiling to head of spine and back cover. Else pages clean and binding tight. Very good(+). Hardcover.

Contents: My travelling companion / tr. by Avril Pyman -- Chelkash / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- Old Izergil / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- Grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka / tr. by Bernard Isaacs -- One autumn / tr. by Avril Pyman -- Song of the falcon / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- Konovalov / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- For want of something better to do / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- Twenty-six men and a girl / tr. by Bernard Isaacs / Song of the stormy petrel / tr. by Margaret Wettlin -- Tales of Italy (Children of Parma; The tunnel; The mother of a traitor; Pepe) / tr by Rose Prokofieva -- The ice is moving / tr. by Avril Pyman -- A man is born / tr. by Bernard Isaacs -- First love / tr. by Margaret Wettlin. Manners and customs. Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.