Our Lenin

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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #146Our Lenin

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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Title:

Our Lenin

Author:

Shaw, Ruth & Harry Alan Potamkin

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

International Publishers

Date Published:

[1934]

Description:

62 pp. Illustrated in black & white by William Siegel. 22.5x27 cm. (8¾x1½"), cloth-backed pictorial boards. First Edition in English.

Life of Vladimir Lenin for American children, based upon an illustrated story published in the Soviet Union some years earlier. "While the story has been partly fictionalized, it adheres closely to the true events in the life of Lenin."

Condition:

Spine cloth partially perished, wear to boards edges, minor cover soiling; front hinge cracked, about very good.

Item#:

214753

Headline:

Illustrated Biography of Lenin for American kids
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