Author: SOBOLEV, Leonid (Soboloff)
Title: The Soul of the Sea: Stories of the Red Navy. 'Stalin Prize for Fiction'. Translated from the Russian by M. And N. Nicholas. Hutchinson's New Fiction.
Description: London etc. Hutchinson & Co, n.d. First British edition, small 8vo. 191pp. original unclipped blue dust-wrapper displaying price of 8/6 "including extra war costs". War economy paper. dust-wrapper softened at edges, paper a little yellowed but a good clean, tight copy. Translator not given (probably Nicholas Orloff). Leonid Sobolev [?????? ??????? 1898 - 1971], Soviet writer and journalist, spent his early career in the Baltic fleet. Much of his fiction revolving around naval life extolled Soviet patriotism. He later became a controversial figure in literature.

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