Frankfurtskii Potok (Frankfurt Flow)

Frankfurt: Literaturnoi Evropeetz, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 5-212; original glossy pictorial wraps; 1" crease line to upper corner of front cover; slight curling to bottom corners of first several pages; near fine. Signed/inscribed by the author to Anatoly Liberman, a professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore at the University of Minnesota. He, himself, is the author of several books and hundreds of smaller scholarly works. In a recent interview, Vladimir Batshev, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, when asked if he had felt nostalgic about Russia answered: "Nostalgia does not exist. It was a word invented by the Communists to discourage people from emigrating.