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‘And quiet Flows the Don’, (Volume 1), first edition, fifth print.
Putnam, 1934. Hardback
‘The Don Flows Home To The Sea’, (Volume 2), first edition, first print.
Putnam, 1940. Hardback
'And Quiet Flows The Don' is signed and dated (15.1.35) by Mikhail Sholohov on first front free end paper. The first translation into English and in any other language other than Russian is the Putnam’s edition. Previously owned by David Low* who has placed his signature and address at the top of the page.
Volume 1 is in very good condition, internally very good. Black cloth boards, minor bumping and slight tear to cloth at the bottom of spine. Titles: bright in colour. Binding is sound. Dust jacket is good. Jacket is clipped. Chip at head of the spine with shallow chips – elsewhere creasing. Tape to verso some time again fixing tear. Volume 2 is a very good tight, clean copy. Minor shadowing on the front-end paper. Black cloth boards, very good. Dust jacket: Very good, unclipped with some rubbing to the spine of dust jacket.
*Low was a political cartoonist and creator of Colonel Blimp. Low was a friend of Ivan Maisky notable for being Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943. Low mentions his friendship with Maisky in his autobiography and writes of spending time with him at the Soviet Embassy. In Ivan Maisky’s diaries dated the 17.1.35 Maisky records:
“Mikhail Sholokhov has left. He spent about a fortnight in London with his wife. He lived in the embassy. I arranged two receptions for him; one for journalists who interviewed him (the interview was poorly covered in the press) and the other for writers.”
One can only presume that Low was present at one of those receptions and that Sholokhov then signed the copy for him two days before Maisky’s diary entry.
Also with books will be a first edition of Maisky’s Diaries, hardback (Yale university 2015) which mentions Sholokhov’s visit and has many Low cartoons also mentions that Low was a frequent visitor to the Soviet Embassy.
‘And Quiet Flows The Don’ by Mikhail Sholokhov (2 Volumes)
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