KRYMOV KRIMOV, V[ladimir] (Beklemishev)
Title | Tanker Derbent: A Tale. Transalted by B. Kagan. |
---|---|
Illustrator | Anon |
Publisher | Moscow Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (The International Book) |
Date | 1940 |
Book ID | 37910 |
First Edition |
Description
This is the first English edition. 8vo., original ‘Soviet’ cloth, decorated upper board stamped in black and white, MK logo stamped blind to back.
A good copy, tight and clean but cloth rather rubbed from use, paper with usual browning.
Known for his 'rattlingly good yarns', Krymov (Yury Solomonovich Beklemishev 1878-1978) was widely read and translated in the 1920s and thirties. Tanker Derbent was first published in the original in 1938.
Price:
£30.00