Author: MAYAKOVSKY, V.; TRANSLATED BY DORIAN ROTTENBERG
Title: VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN: A POEM
Description: Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1967. 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardback, 12mo, appx 4 1/2 x 7 inches, 214 pages, Near Fine in VG- dj (dj now in protective mylar). Book itself essentially flawless, no names, no writing. DJ clean, only a few tiny edge splits and one short tear. Written 1924, this edition published on the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Laid in is a bookmark commemorating this 50th anniversary as well as a sheet giving some background information on the poet and the poem, and commentary on the poet's public readings of the poem. Text printed in red in Russian on the left-hand pages, in black in English on the right-hand pages. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Russian Literature Poetry Communism Russia Ussr Soviet Union Foreign Language