NY: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980. First edition. 164pp. Gray boards backed with tan cloth; dust jacket. Light toning to edges of boards and textblock; some offsetting to endleaves; very good in an unclipped jacket with a 1-inch push tear to front panel, two short closed edge tears.
English-language translation of this bibulous Russian post-modern novel, written in 1969 and originally disseminated in samizdat. Translated by H. W. Tjalsma, with an introduction by Vera S. Dunham. Jacket design by Ivy Strick.
