SOBOLEV, Leonid (Soboloff) (Trans. Bernard Isaacs)

First English edition. Original decorated and lettered cloth, original attractive unclipped stylised dust-wrapper. Wrap-round design by V. Surikov. 377 pp.. In excellent condition. Very bright, clean and tight. Possibly unread. Leonid Sobolev [Леонид Соболев 1898 - 1971], Soviet writer and journalist, spent his early career in the Baltic fleet. Much of his fiction revolving around naval life extolled Soviet patriotism. He later became a controversial figure in literature. \