Little Golden America

1944, Russian humourists Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov's tour of 1930s America

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Printing Details

First edition, second printing. Hardback, bound in the original black cloth, gilt titling to spine. 22 × 14.5cm, 296pp.

A classic, and incredibly popular, survey of America in the mid to late 1930s. In 1935, Russian correspondents of Pravda newspaper, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, arrived in New York on the SS Normandie. They spent ten weeks in America, crossing the country twice. In the articles and eventual book that followed, they praised the industrial and technological might of the US, and denounced the oppression of Black Americans and workers, and the treatment of Native Americans in the reservations. It became one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union.

Condition

This is a good copy. The black cloth is a little rubbed and marked, and bumped to the corners. The contents are in strong readable condition with secure binding. The pages have a little age-toning but remain clean.