The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Fiction about the War Russian
RCC6336
And Quiet Flows The Don (In Russian 'Tikhi Don') Volume 2
ISBN
N/A
Purchase Price
£40.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
December 10, 2007
Publisher
Foreign Languages Publishing House (1940, Moscow)
Notes
This translation is by Stephen Garry, revised by Robert Dalglish. This is part of a 4 volume set, 16mo, brown cloth over bevelled boards, with a slipcase. There is an Author portrait, and sewn in silk page markers. Laid into Volume 1 is a 16mo, 2pp printed 'Key to Principal Characters'. This epic was published between 1928 and 1940, with the first half first published in English translation by Knopf in 1934. This complete text is undated but is 1940s vintage, just possibly before the German invasion of Russia in 1941, or somewhat later, but in any event no later than the 1940s. It is almost certainly the first complete English translation. All 4 volumes bear, on the front flyleaf, the rubberstamped ownership signature of Adlai E. Stevenson 11 (1900 - 1965), two term Illinois Governor and twice - 1952 and 1956 - Presidential Candidate against Eisenhower. This set came from Stevenson's son, Adlai E. Stevenson 111, himself a former U.S. Senator for Illinois 1972 - 1981, and twice Illinois gubernatorial candidate.
N/A
Purchase Price
£40.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
December 10, 2007
Publisher
Foreign Languages Publishing House (1940, Moscow)
Notes
This translation is by Stephen Garry, revised by Robert Dalglish. This is part of a 4 volume set, 16mo, brown cloth over bevelled boards, with a slipcase. There is an Author portrait, and sewn in silk page markers. Laid into Volume 1 is a 16mo, 2pp printed 'Key to Principal Characters'. This epic was published between 1928 and 1940, with the first half first published in English translation by Knopf in 1934. This complete text is undated but is 1940s vintage, just possibly before the German invasion of Russia in 1941, or somewhat later, but in any event no later than the 1940s. It is almost certainly the first complete English translation. All 4 volumes bear, on the front flyleaf, the rubberstamped ownership signature of Adlai E. Stevenson 11 (1900 - 1965), two term Illinois Governor and twice - 1952 and 1956 - Presidential Candidate against Eisenhower. This set came from Stevenson's son, Adlai E. Stevenson 111, himself a former U.S. Senator for Illinois 1972 - 1981, and twice Illinois gubernatorial candidate.