Author: SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail Sholohov
Title: Virgin Soil Upturned. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry.
Description: London, Putnam, 1938. Early reprint of first UK edition, May 1938. Cloth darkened at spine ends else bright. Dust-wrapper fair - somewhat softened with some chipping and tears to spine ends. vii[ii]+488pp. In good condition with slightly worn dust-wrapper. The first part of Sholokhov's celebrated second novel on the collectivisation of agriculture in a Don Cossack village. First published in Russian in 1932 as 'Podnyataya Tselina'. The second part (Harvest on the Don) was published in 1960. 1936 dust-wrapper illustration by [E.]A. Verpilleux (husband of Carolyn Putnam). Terras 408, Cornwell 731.

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