The Fierce and Beautiful World

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by Joseph Barnes. Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clippe, generally rubbed and soiled, a few scuffs. Quarter black cloth with orange paper on the boards, lightly soiled. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, foxed at the endpapers. The first English-language publication of Platonov's works, a collection of stories written during the 1920s and 1930s.