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[FIRST RUSSIAN HEMINGWAY] Smert’ posle poludnya [i.e. Death in the Afternoon]

Hemingway, E.

Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1934. Item #1422

266, [5] pp., 1 ill. 19,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Bumped, stains occasionally, otherwise very good.

First separate edition of Hemingway in Russia. One of 8000 copies.
This is a collection of Hemingway’s stories published along with an article by Ivan Kashkin, the major propagandist of his works who also coordinated work of 11 translators. This book was named after ‘Death in the Afternoon’ but included just a short piece from chapter 12.
The USSR willingly accepted Hemingway as an anti-fascist writer and translated his works since 1934. The stories started to appear in magazines and this book was promptly published as well. The edition consisted of chapters from four books: ‘In Our Days’, ‘Men Without Women’, ‘‘Death in the Afternoon’ and ‘Winner Take Nothing’. Until the publication of the story ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ (1940) Hemingway had drawn attention and positive emotional responses of almost the whole country.

Worldcat shows copies located in University of Texas, Yale University and University of California.

Price: $650.00