Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (unattributed, but signed MB); 234, [3] pp. Four full-page illustrations by Seregin. Very good or better. First edition thus of the 1923 short story by prolific Soviet writer Marietta Shaginian (1888–1982), set during the Civil War, which..... More