London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1975. 158pp. Green textured-paper boards; dust jacket. Textblock lightly toned & with a mild damp stain to top. Unclipped jacket with fading to spine and edges of front panel, edge and hinge wear. About very good in like jacket.
First English-language edition of this posthumously published sequence of stories by celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, which draw on his "own experiences as a newly-qualified doctor during the turbulent years of the First World War and the Russian Revolution" (jacket flap). Translated by Michael Glenny.
