Author: CHINGIZ AITMATOV.
Title: Mother Earth and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian and with a seventeen-page introduction by James Riordan.
Description: Faber, London, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First English edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Black boards lettered in cream at the spine. A hint of toning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in lightly rubbed and chafed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Five of the preeminent Kyrgyz author's lengthy stories: 'Mother Earth', 'Jamila', 'The First Teacher', 'Camel Eye' and 'Spotted Dog Running Along the Seashore'; plus a glossary and chronology of his writings. Uncommon. Near Fine/Very Good.

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