Stronger than Death: Short Stories of the Russians at War
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press / American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, 1944. Giacomo Patri. First edition. 81pp. Small quarto [24 cm] Thin card boards. Black and orange titles. Each story decorated with a quarter-page vignette by Patri. The adhered (as issued) tan paper jacket is pulling away from the spine. The jacket has several losses from the edges, the largest measuring 2 1/2" wide by 1" deep. Good / good. Item #61297
Contributors include V. Lidin, Boris Lavrenev, Eugene Petrov, and Alexei Tolstoi. 1500 copies were printed at the Grabhorn Press for the American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union. The artist, Giacomo Patri, was an illustrator for local newspapers beginning in 1925, while teaching at the Presidio Hill School and California Labor School. From 1948 until retiring in 1966, he headed his own art school in San Francisco.
Price: $50.00