Ledianye Nochi (Icy Nights)

Moskva (Moscow): Molodaia Gvardiia, 1934. Second edition; 7" x 5"; pp. [5], 6-172, [4]; pictorial blue cloth over card stock wraps; illustrated with photographs; light fading to spine cover and margins; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; in very good or better condition.Icy Nights was Russian journalist Mikhail Rozenfeld's personal account of the Arctic rescue expedition of the icebreaker Malygin by EPRON (Special Operations Underwater Rescue Party). The book’s cover art was created by Constructivist artist and graphic designer Efim Pernikov (1903 - 1966). Apart from his illustrating numerous books and designing posters, he would go on to work as a frontline correspondent during WWII.